Significado de boost en inglés

boost

verb [ T ]

/buːst/ us

/buːst/

boost verb [T] (INCREASE)

Add to word list Add to word list

to increase or improve something:

The company is looking for ways to boost sales in Asia, its biggest market.

I tried to boost his morale by praising his cooking.

Share prices were boosted by reports of the president's recovery.

Más ejemplosMenos ejemplos

The magazine misreported its sales figures in order to boost advertising revenue.
The new player's skilful debut performance should boost the team's confidence.
She claimed tax cuts would boost the economy.
The board is even considering increasing charges to boost profits.
The compliments she received after the presentation boosted her self-esteem.
The theatre managed to boost its audiences by cutting ticket prices.
More money is needed to boost the industry.

SMART Vocabulary: palabras y expresiones relacionadas

Increasing and intensifying

Ver más resultados »

También encontrarás palabras, frases y sinónimos relacionados con los temas:

Making things better

boost verb [T] (GET VACCINE)

[ usually passive ]

to give someone a booster vaccine (= a small amount of a substance put into a person's body to protect them from illness, that increases the effect of the same substance that was given some time before):

The government mounted a public health campaign urging everyone to get boosted before the winter flu season.

More than half of over 18s in the country have now been boosted against Covid.

Más ejemplosMenos ejemplos

You may need immunising or boosting against certain infections.
Have you been boosted yet? If not, book your booster online.

SMART Vocabulary: palabras y expresiones relacionadas

Medicines & drugs: preventing infection

Ver más resultados »

boost

noun [ C usually singular ]

/buːst/ us

/buːst/

an occasion when something is improved or increased:

The lowering of interest rates will give a much-needed boost to the economy.

Passing my driving test was such a boost to my confidence.

Diccionario de sinónimos, antónimos y ejemplos

an increase

increaseThere has been an sharp increase in municipal taxes this year.
riseLast month saw a rise in the rate of inflation.
gainWe are not seeing the gains in productivity that we expected.
boostWe are hoping for a boost in sales this year.

Ver más resultados »

Más ejemplosMenos ejemplos

An immediate interest cut might give a small boost to the economy. Even so, any recovery is likely to be very slow.
The publicity generated by the court case has given a welcome boost to our sales.
The change in the exchange rate provided a timely boost to the company's falling profits.
The city will get a real boost if its Olympic bid is successful.
Vitamin supplements can give your immune system a boost.

SMART Vocabulary: palabras y expresiones relacionadas

Increasing and intensifying

Ver más resultados »

También encontrarás palabras, frases y sinónimos relacionados con los temas:

Making things better

(Definición de boost del Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

boost | Diccionario de Inglés Americano

boost

verb

/bust/

boost verb (MAKE BETTER)

Add to word list Add to word list

[ T ]

to improve or increase something:

We took various steps to try to boost sales.

boost verb (LIFT)

[ T always + adv/prep ]

to lift someone or something by pushing from below:

She boosted the little boy up to see over the fence.

boost

noun

us/bust/

boost noun (IMPROVEMENT)

[ C usually sing ]

an improvement or increase, or an action that causes this:

The president’s approval rating got a boost following his speech.

boost noun (LIFT)

[ C ]

a push from below that lifts a person or thing:

I need a boost to get over the wall.

(Definición de boost del Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

boost | Inglés de negocios

boost

verb [ T ]

/buːst/ us

Add to word list Add to word list

to increase or improve something:

boost profits/prices/rates The industry has exceeded all expectations for boosting profits and dividends.

boost exports/sales/trade The lower exchange rate is already boosting exports.

boost confidence/morale He was elected on a platform to create jobs and boost investor confidence.

The effect of these policies would be to encourage spending and boost the economy.

boost production/performance/productivity

boost sth (by) 20%/50%/100%, etc. The company boosted its dividend nearly 50%.

boost

noun [ C, usually singular ]

/buːst/ us

an act or event that increases or improves something:

Typically sales jump in the autumn, when they get a boost from the back-to-school and holiday shopping seasons.

The campaign for pension reform received a boost on Friday.

Shares on Wall Street were given a boost by a rally in the US Treasury bond market.

a big/major/huge/significant boost

an increase:

a boost in sth Motorists who operate diesel-powered vehicles would face a 1.5-cent-a-gallon boost in fuel taxes.

The income boost for the two million lowest paid will not take effect until October.

(Definición de boost del Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Ejemplos de boost

boost

Zoster may occur more frequently in adults who have not been boosted by varicella contacts (6).

Del Cambridge English Corpus

Zoster may occur more frequently in adults who have not been boosted by varicella contacts during their adult life [28].

Del Cambridge English Corpus

Accelerated radiotherapy regimen for malignant gliomas using stereotactic concomitant boosts for dose escalation.

Del Cambridge English Corpus

The involvement of a community psychiatric nurse with such patients may have boosted the uptake of interviews, but was not logistically possible.

Del Cambridge English Corpus

Then in the 2000 election, the party boosted its strength by 41.65%.

Del Cambridge English Corpus

Thus, besides their pattern detection capacities, children's understanding of intentions substantially boosts their learning of meaningful rules.

Del Cambridge English Corpus

Finally, the increased focus on doctors' neglect may have boosted defensive medical behavior and risk aversion among the general practitioners.

Del Cambridge English Corpus

They turned their focus to the department's flagging mail operations, boosting the efficiency of the agency's basic services.

Del Cambridge English Corpus

Small amounts of spectral noise actually boosted the average amplitude of temporally-coded signals relative to a pure sinusoidal modulation.

Del Cambridge English Corpus

Raising plan generosity also boosts employees' appreciation of their retirement program but its effect is more modest.

Del Cambridge English Corpus

The positional faithfulness approach accounts for accented dominant affixes by boosting the faithfulness properties of certain affixes.

Del Cambridge English Corpus

The new cities were located on the imperial highways usually at points where they crossed a navigable river thus facilitating communication and boosting commerce.

Del Cambridge English Corpus

In this paper we present an original neoclassical growth model in which work effort and accumulation are boosted by negative externalities.

Del Cambridge English Corpus

Ultimately it boosted their authority by conferring a more complete legitimacy.

Del Cambridge English Corpus

In this regime we are not acting on (neither boosting nor penalizing) any possible group selection factor.

Del Cambridge English Corpus

Ver todos los ejemplos de boost

Las opiniones mostradas en los ejemplos no representan las opiniones de los editores de Cambridge University Press o de sus licenciantes.

Colocaciones con boost

boost

Estas palabras se suelen usar con boost.

Selecciona una colocación para ver más ejemplos de su uso.

big boost

They're a big boost to both me and you all.

Del Cambridge English Corpus

boost phase

The boost phase preceded the pelvic phase in this protocol in order to complete all data collection within the first 5 weeks of radiation treatment.

Del Cambridge English Corpus

enormous boost

The 1960s were marked by an enormous boost of economically inspired banditry.

Del Cambridge English Corpus

Estos ejemplos provienen del Cambridge English Corpus y de otras fuentes de Internet. Cualquier opinión expresada en los ejemplos no representa las opiniones de los editores de Cambridge Dictionary o de Cambridge University Press o de sus licenciantes.

Ver todas las colocaciones con boost

¿Cómo se pronuncia boost?

Traducciones de boost

en chino (tradicional)

改善, 提高, 增強…

Significado de boost en inglés

boost verb [T] (INCREASE)

boost verb [T] (GET VACCINE)

boost | Diccionario de Inglés Americano

boost verb (MAKE BETTER)

boost verb (LIFT)

boost noun (IMPROVEMENT)

boost noun (LIFT)

boost | Inglés de negocios

Ejemplos de boost

Colocaciones con boost

boost

Traducciones de boost

Buscar

Aprende más con +Plus

Aprende más con +Plus