No. 8,421 in French
accroitre
To increase or to grow.
In a sentence
L'entreprise cherche à accroître sa productivité.
The company seeks to increase its productivity.
Accroître is used to mean 'to increase' in the context of improving or expanding outcomes such as productivity.
Il veut accroître ses connaissances en linguistique.
He wants to enhance his knowledge in linguistics.
Accroître means 'to enhance' or 'to develop' when referring to personal or intellectual growth.
Les nouvelles mesures ont permis d'accroître l'efficacité de ce processus.
The new measures have allowed the efficiency of this process to be increased.
Accroître is utilized in a passive sense to indicate improvement in a specific measurable quality.
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