Used in a Sentence

boosting

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for boosting.

Editorial note

If your game is trivial, boosting your profile from it can be a much greater reward than monetisation.

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Quick take

The act or process by which something is boosted.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of boosting gathered in one view.

noun

The act or process by which something is boosted.

noun

(slang) An act or incidence of theft.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for boosting.

noun

The act or process by which something is boosted.

noun

(slang) An act or incidence of theft.

Example sentences

1

If your game is trivial, boosting your profile from it can be a much greater reward than monetisation.

2

If there's not enough sun, it's usually because of rain(increasing reservoir levels) and there's wind (boosting wind power).

3

Exxon would love to continue boosting its domestic holdings (after making a few big bakken acquisitions previously).

4

Shopping the site around to get more than $500 million is just ego boosting at that point.

5

Personal differences aside the paid troll farms boosting the noise has really gotten unbearable on the interwebs.

6

That debt, while boosting consumption in the short term, end up restricting consumption in the long term.

7

Investing more in education, health care and technology is the normal way of boosting productivity growth.

8

I don't see why it's material whether this reason was friendship/status-boosting or some sort of tangible, cash benefit.

9

A large majority of employers will match an employee’s contribution – up to a point – thereby boosting the employee’s savings rate.

10

With Android M, I'll strip it of all extra permissions like location and microphone, further boosting my privacy.

11

Gradient Boosting models are another variant of ensemble models, different from Random Forest.

12

What I was thinking was something like, 'a big glob of money generally earmarked for boosting the economy and other do-goodery'.

Quote examples

1

Mr Haldane argued that left far less cash available for growth-boosting investment and that firms risked "eating themselves".

2

I have a still better plan: why don't they take even crappier Balkan economies in the eurozone instead of Greece, and "benefit" from even lower currency value, thus boosting exports to the max?

3

Usually, after a week or so I never refer to the notes again, but the initial phase of boosting my short term memory with paper, global searches and "getting my hands to know the code" works pretty well.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use boosting in a sentence?

If your game is trivial, boosting your profile from it can be a much greater reward than monetisation.

What does boosting mean?

The act or process by which something is boosted.

What part of speech is boosting?

boosting is commonly used as noun.