0 to make someone more likely to do something, or to make something more likely to happen: --
They've always encouraged me in everything I've wanted to do.
The council is encouraging the development of the property for both employment and recreation.
[ T + to infinitive ] We were encouraged to learn foreign languages at school.
1 to help someone to feel confident and able to do something, or to give advice to someone to do something: --
However, this process also encouraged elements within urban society to define themselves in opposition to rival 'communities' within their own walls.
We encourage replication studies because we believe that such work is both useful and necessary.
Virtually all of these efforts presume, encourage, and sometimes even require modeling to accompany systematic reviews of clinical evidence (10).
Although, immediate complete angiographic success is unlikely to be achieved in ducts >3.5mm, short-term results are encouraging.
The crucial characteristic of this method is that it encourages people to express dissent.
This has tended to encourage help from family members or others for the same tasks.
Every centre was encouraged to strengthen its social science research, to address particular themes and overall staff numbers.
This is encouraging for further elaboration of the underlying theoretical framework in future studies.
