"enhancing" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

Forms: more enhancing [comparative], most enhancing [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} enhancing (comparative more enhancing, superlative most enhancing)
  1. Acting or tending to enhance.
    Sense id: en-enhancing-en-adj--dgyYPJ~ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 66 4 30 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 69 4 27 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 73 2 25

Noun [English]

Forms: enhancings [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} enhancing (plural enhancings)
  1. The act of enhancing; enhancement.
    Sense id: en-enhancing-en-noun-421-Tqng

Verb [English]

Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} enhancing
  1. present participle and gerund of enhance Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: enhance Derived forms: enhancingly, immunoenhancing, neuroenhancing, nonenhancing
    Sense id: en-enhancing-en-verb-CnHhaLR7

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2011, Sri Wening Handayani, Enhancing Social Protection in Asia and the Pacific:",
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