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morale building

morale building

3.7
Activities that improve confidence and enthusiasm in a group
  • noun
translation icon : fortalecimiento de la moral
  • The team organized a morale building event to boost spirits.

Examples

  • The weekly team lunch was a great morale building activity for the entire staff.

  • Organizing social events can be a key part of morale building in any company.

  • Recognition from the manager served as effective morale building for the workers.

  • We need some morale building activities this week!

  • The company organized a retreat focused on morale building to boost team spirit after a difficult year.

  • The coach emphasized the importance of morale building activities to keep the players motivated during the season.

  • Many employees participated in morale building events to foster a positive work environment.

Synonyms

morale booster
vsmorale building
2 3.6

Something that makes people feel more confident and positive

is broader, adding longer term strengthening and discipline
morale builder
vsmorale building
1 3.9

Something that makes a group feel more confident and happy

is broader, covering any action that strengthens enthusiasm or discipline
fillip to morale
vsmorale building
  • UK
7.2

A small event that makes people feel happier and more confident

is more general, including slow steady strengthening and discipline

Antonyms

discouragement
3 3.6

A feeling of lost confidence that makes you want to stop trying

demoralization
2 8.0

A feeling of discouragement and low confidence in a person or group

How Effective

morale building
3.7
gesture
245 3.2

Surface Forms

morale building singular
morale buildings plural

Morphology

morale + build

The meaning is directly compositional: 'morale' (confidence/enthusiasm) combined with 'build' (to increase or create) yields activities or measures that increase morale. This is a productive, transparent noun construction (often hyphenated as 'morale-building') and follows common cross-linguistic patterns, so a B1 learner who knows the parts should be able to infer the meaning.

Etymology

The phrase morale building gives the image of morale as something you can build up by actions or events. So doing small activities that raise a group's 'confidence' and 'enthusiasm' is called 'morale building'.