enrichment
/ɛnˈrɪtʃm(ə)nt
/noun [mass noun]
1The action of improving or enhancing the quality or value of something: enrichment of the soil for more plant growth environments where youth can experience cultural enrichment...
- Quality academic advising has often been identified as an important facet in the retention and enrichment of college students.
- The most important is that of population growth carries with it a qualitative enrichment of community life.
- After-school and summer programs support academic enrichment and life-skills development.
1.1An increase in the proportion of a particular isotope in an element, especially that of the fissile isotope U-235 in uranium, so as to make it more powerful or explosive: a centrifuge plant for uranium enrichment [as modifier]: the enrichment process used to make nuclear fuel rods...
- They agreed not to possess facilities for nuclear reprocessing or uranium enrichment.
- The major powers generally want to limit proliferation of nuclear power precisely because of its links to weaponry, which is made possible by the enrichment of uranium.
- The non-nuclear weapon states should agree not to acquire or make nuclear weapons and that nuclear enrichment of uranium was only allowed for peaceful purposes.
2The process of making someone wealthy or wealthier: the policy was denounced as a means of enrichment of a small elite...
- Privatisations were conducted corruptly for the enrichment of a greedy few.
- He said the party would rally against the stripping of national assets for the enrichment of a handful of private individuals.
- It would take democratic control of the major corporations and reorganise production to meet the needs of society, rather than the enrichment of a handful of company chiefs and major stockholders.