boosters
- 1Plural of booster.
Engineers inspected the solid rocket boosters for cracks before the launch.
The clinic ran out of vaccine boosters during the busy winter season.
Note
An ordinary -s plural that inherits every meaning of its singular, so the surrounding words do the sorting. Near a launch pad, boosters are first-stage rockets. In a car, the word is short for booster seats, and the full phrase puts the plural on seat, not on booster. Around a team or cause, boosters are its supporters or booster-club members. In power engineering, the word names motor-generator sets that regulate voltage.
boosters is a form of booster
booster, noun: An additional dose of a vaccine given after the initial series to renew or strengthen immunity. Full entry
- Forms
- boosterboosters plural
- Spelling
- booster → boosters: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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