Other Word Forms
- self-enrichment noun
Etymology
Origin of enrichment
Explanation
Enrichment makes something more meaningful, substantial, or rewarding. Enrichment improves something. Riches are valuable things, such as money, jewels, and gold. Similarly, enrichment is when something is made more valuable. A reading enrichment program improves education. When vitamins or nutrients are added to food, that's enrichment because it makes the food healthier. All types of enrichment are improvements; they leave things better than they were before. You can also say such enrichment has enriched your life.
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Example Sentences
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Among other sacrifices, it would have restricted their uranium enrichment to 1.5 percent purity.
From Slate • Apr. 13, 2026
They also further damaged its enrichment program, taking out a site for making yellowcake—the raw material that can be turned into enriched uranium.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
A discussion of Iranian nuclear enrichment will likely be left to a later date.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 11, 2026
Earlier this week, BWX notified regulators of its intent to license a new uranium enrichment plant adjacent to its existing nuclear fuel site in Tennessee.
From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026
More important to Italy’s musical enrichment than the cultural salvage from Constantinople was the importing, at vast expense, of skilled and celebrated Flemish composers.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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