booster

plural boosters

1. Something that boosts.

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   DUBNER: Now, the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, some officials there, after we published these findings in the New York Times, wrote a letter to the editor, and it said, "Our research consistently shows that child safety seats and booster seats significantly lower the risk of serious injury compared to seatbelts alone." They go on to say that your recommendations to rethink car-seat laws are "irresponsible and dangerous"... LEVITT: I think what's irresponsible and dangerous is accepting mediocrity, accepting our existing solutions as if they are the best solution. What I take away from the research is we've put in all of these laws about child car seats and we've built these contraptions but then when you look at the data, they're really not doing better, certainly not much better, than this other invention, which never had kids in mind and shouldn't work at all.

   2021 January 13, Stephen Joseph Dubner, “How Much Do We Really Care about Children?”, in Freakonomics Radio, Episode 447

2. abbreviationellipsisEllipsis of booster seat.
3. spacecraftaerospaceThe first stage of a multistage rocket, providing primary or supplemental thrust for liftoff and early flight.
4. businessA motor-generator set used for voltage regulation in direct current electrical power circuits.
5. Someone who publicly promotes or endorses (something or someone); a fan or supporter.

   Nor is his district quite the Democratic bastion boosters describe: voters there narrowly backed Barack Obama in 2008, but voted for Mr Bush by a hefty margin in 2004.

   2012, “Lexington: A fiscal hawk, grounded”, in The Economist

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   The Pied Piper treats Lowenstein as a metaphor for American post-war liberalism and subjects a once highly regarded political movement to the same scrutiny Lowenstein himself faces. Not too surprisingly, both come out wanting, though their boosters claim otherwise.

   1985 August 24, Gordon Gottlieb, “CIA-Baiting a Liberal Closet Queen”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 7, page 12

6. A member of a booster club.
7. immunologyA booster dose.

   When did you get your last tetanus booster?

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   In the September vaccine monitor survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation, 71 percent of unvaccinated respondents said the need for boosters indicated that the vaccines were not working.

   2021 October 11, Jan Hoffman, “Boosters Are Complicating Efforts to Persuade the Unvaccinated to Get Shots”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

8. explosivesA small quantity of a sensitive explosive that is triggered by a detonator and provides the energy needed to detonate a larger quantity of a less-sensitive explosive.
9. human sciencesA term that serves to amplify or strengthen an utterance, such as "really".
10. video gamesA power-up item.
11. gamesA package of cards or figurines designed to add to a player's collection.
12. slangA thief.

    The security guard captured two boosters before they could exit the retail store.

13. rail transportA booster engine fitted to a steam locomotive.

    Also in 1939, six 4-8-4s, classified "Kb" because they have boosters, were built at Hillside for service between Christchurch and Arthurs Pass.

    1954 August, J. B. Snell, “The New Zealand Government Railways—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 561

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    Another notable new series of locomotives, now in course of delivery to the Canadian National Railways, [...]. Fifteen are being built by the Montreal Locomotive Works Limited, and ten by the Canadian Locomotive Company, of Kingston, Ontario; the former are being provided with boosters and the latter are not.

    1941 January, “Recent North American Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 27

present singular third person boosters · participle present boostering · participle past boostered · past boostered

1. transitivemedicineTo give a booster shot to; to boost.

   What I would prefer over hazard pay would be for every one of our patients to get vaccinated and boostered, as we request constantly. That would be what would make me happy.

   2022 January 11, Jessica Jacob, “Health Workers, ‘Risking Their Own Lives to Save Ours’”, in The New York Times

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   "Hey guys, on the first day of our holiday break I tested positive for Covid. I was vaccinated and boostered which made me lucky enough to only have mild symptoms," he wrote beside a photo that showed him sitting alone inside a testing room wearing a mask.

   2022 January 3, Joelle Goldstein, “Jimmy Fallon Reveals He Tested Positive for COVID: 'I Was Vaccinated and Boostered'”, in People