Meanings
adjectivemultiplicatory (not comparable)
- not comparableServing to multiply.
[Strategies] should be based on well-analysed proposals, no matter how simple they may be, provided that they are both feasible and useful, and above all trigger expansion with multiplicatory effects.
2002, Berma Klein Goldewijk, Adalid Contreras Baspineiro, Paulo César Carbonari, Dignity and Human Rights: The Implementation of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, page 181
Origin
From multiply + -c- + -atory or multiplicate + -ory, compare multiplication, multiplicative.
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