"aprimoration" meaning in English

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          "english": "Corporate training applied to mobile communication",
          "ref": "2003, Custodio, F.B., Treinamento corporativo aplicado à comunicação móvel [Corporate training applied to mobile communication] (master's thesis), page 6:",
          "text": "The company must see the benefits brought for the compromised [sic, meaning committed] employees to the productive world, [such] as the aprimoration of the products and services, the reduction of wastefulness for the improvement of the work techniques, the magnifying or transformation of work programs, the economy of costs for the elimination of errors in the execution of the work and the best conditions of adaptation to the progress of the technology.",
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          "ref": "2003 December 18, Hendges, A.N.G., “Requisitos Essenciais para a Caracterização da União Estável [Essential Requirements for the Characterization of a Civil Union]”, in Revista de Ciências Jurídicas e Sociais da UNIPAR [UNIPAR's Journal of Legal and Social Sciences], volume 6, number 2, page 6:",
          "text": "The stable union like the marriage, it belongs the main center of cultivation of relationships that aim at moral aprimoration, to the man. It is important the analysis of the rights of the convivens for the moral attendance in reason of its relevance, the true requirement of the stable union that, like accur in the marriage, to bias the execution of the other duties for the companions.\n[sic, the text is unintelligible. It means, \"A civil union, as well as a marriage, is the main center for cultivating relationships that aim at human moral aprimoration. It's important to analyze cohabitants' right to moral attendance by reason of its relevance: it's the very requirement for a civil union that, as it occurs in a marriage, is favourable for partners to comply with other duties\".]",
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          "ref": "2017 June 16, Ribeiro, N. F., “Boxing Culture and Serious Leisure among North-American youth: An Embodied Ethnography.”, in The Qualitative Report, volume 22, number 6, page 1623:",
          "text": "The conceptual framework I used for the study is that of serious and casual leisure. Given the ethos of boxing, that [sic, meaning which] revolves around relentless acquisition of new skills and aprimoration of the body, built on relentless discipline and almost exclusive devotion to the sport, the acquisition of new skills in order to participate/engage in higher levels of the sport is paramount.",
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        "Improvement, refinement, sublimation (raising to a state of excellence)."
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        "(non-native speakers' English, nonstandard) Improvement, refinement, sublimation (raising to a state of excellence)."
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          "text": "The company must see the benefits brought for the compromised [sic, meaning committed] employees to the productive world, [such] as the aprimoration of the products and services, the reduction of wastefulness for the improvement of the work techniques, the magnifying or transformation of work programs, the economy of costs for the elimination of errors in the execution of the work and the best conditions of adaptation to the progress of the technology.",
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          "text": "The stable union like the marriage, it belongs the main center of cultivation of relationships that aim at moral aprimoration, to the man. It is important the analysis of the rights of the convivens for the moral attendance in reason of its relevance, the true requirement of the stable union that, like accur in the marriage, to bias the execution of the other duties for the companions.\n[sic, the text is unintelligible. It means, \"A civil union, as well as a marriage, is the main center for cultivating relationships that aim at human moral aprimoration. It's important to analyze cohabitants' right to moral attendance by reason of its relevance: it's the very requirement for a civil union that, as it occurs in a marriage, is favourable for partners to comply with other duties\".]",
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