acrecentamiento

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Spanish

Etymology

From acrecentar +‎ -miento.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Spain) /akɾeθentaˈmjento/
  • IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /akɾesentaˈmjento/
  • Rhymes: -ento
  • Syllabification: a‧cre‧cen‧ta‧mien‧to

Noun

acrecentamiento m (plural acrecentamientos)

  1. growth, increase (caused by an agent)
    • 2016 July 21, “Rodríguez Zapatero, es con usted”, in El Nacional:
      [] que “frente a esta situación, con un discurso cada vez más belicista, el acrecentamiento del poder militar es una amenaza a la tranquilidad y a la paz”, cosas que unidas a la delincuencia y la impunidad, hermanadas en el proceso de destrucción que padecemos, forman parte de un sistema de hostigamiento activo, típico de regímenes autocráticos y totalitarios.
      that "in the face of this situation, with an increasingly warmongering discourse, the increase in military power is a threat to tranquility and peace", things that together with crime and impunity, twinned in the process of destruction that we are suffering, they are part of a system of active harassment, typical of autocratic and totalitarian regimes.

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