# plus

Pronunciation: say "PLUS" US/UK /plʌs/, AUS /plɐs/

## Preposition

1. Used to mean 'with' or 'having in addition to.' *(colloquial)*
   - Simple: Used to show that something comes together with something else.
   - _The package includes the camera plus two extra lenses._
   - _He arrived with his luggage plus a guitar case._
3. Used to indicate the sum of a preceding number and the one that follows.
   - Simple: Used to show that one number is added to another.
   - _Four plus six makes ten._
   - _Forty dollars plus twelve for delivery came to fifty-two._

## Conjunction

2. Used to introduce an additional point, reason, or fact alongside what was just stated.
   - Simple: Used to add another point or reason to what you just said.
   - _She didn't want to drive that far, plus the weather looked terrible._
   - _The apartment is close to work, plus it has a great view._

## Adjective

4. Following a quantity to mean equal to or greater than it; that figure or above. *(colloquial)*
   - Simple: Used after a number to mean that number or higher.
   - _The film is rated for viewers aged eighteen plus._
   - _The role requires a candidate with ten years plus in management._
7. Positive in nature, or bringing an advantage.
   - Simple: Good, or giving an advantage.
   - _The plus side of remote work is the time saved commuting._
   - _Reviewers counted the long battery life among the phone's plus points._
8. Ranking slightly above the letter grade or mark that it follows.
   - Simple: Put after a letter grade to show a result a little better than that grade.
   - _The professor gave her paper an A minus, not the A plus she had hoped for._
   - _The bank's credit rating was cut from A plus to A._
10. Being positive in value, rather than negative or equal to zero.
   - Simple: Being more than zero, not negative.
   - _After the correction, the spreadsheet showed a quarterly change of plus three percent._
   - _Our best defenseman finished the season plus twelve, the top mark on the team._
12. Designating positive electric charge or the positive terminal in a circuit.
   - Simple: Having a positive electric charge, not a negative one.
   - _Engineers labeled the plus terminal to show where current leaves the source._
   - _Before you jump-start the car, find the plus terminal on the battery, which is usually under a red cover._

## Noun

5. A favorable feature, advantage, or useful addition to something.
   - Simple: A good point or helpful thing about something.
   - _The quiet neighborhood is a definite plus for families with young children._
   - _Her experience abroad proved a major plus during the interview._
6. The symbol +, used to indicate addition or to mark a positive value.
   - Simple: The symbol +, used to show that numbers are added.
   - _The teacher told them to put a plus where the numbers should be added._
   - _He mistook the plus for a small cross on the worksheet._
11. A positive amount or quantity, one greater than zero.
   - Simple: An amount that is more than zero.
   - _In math class we learned that a minus times a minus gives a plus._
   - _Multiply a plus by a minus and you always end up with a minus._

## Verb

9. To add a number or amount; to subject something to addition. *(colloquial)*
   - Simple: To add one amount to another to get a total.
   - _"First you plus the two numbers, then you take away three," my daughter explained, showing me her math homework._
   - _If you plus the tax, the total comes to forty dollars._
13. To increase something, especially funding, pay or staff numbers, usually in the phrase plus up.
   - Simple: To make something bigger, like a budget or a team, usually said as plus up.
   - _The committee voted to plus up the training budget by ten percent._
   - _The agency plussed up its border staff before the holiday rush._
14. To improve something, especially by adding to it or by suggesting improvements rather than simply criticizing.
   - Simple: To make something better by adding to it or by suggesting ways to improve it.
   - _The director wanted to plus every scene with extra detail._
   - _They plussed the proposal repeatedly until investors were impressed._

## Verb

15. To give a mark of approval to content on the Google+ social network. *(dated)*
   - Simple: To mark a post as approved on the Google+ website.
   - _Users would plus posts they liked to boost their visibility._
   - _He plussed the announcement so it reached more of his circles._

## Other meanings

- (verb) To sell additional related items along with a customer's original purchase.
- (verb) In crisis counseling, to frame what a person says or does in a positive, sympathetic light.
- (verb) To dilute a homeopathic remedy in water and stir it, a process its practitioners hold to raise the remedy's potency.

## Origin

Borrowed from Latin plūs, meaning "more."

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/plus (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).