Aggrandizement
noun
The action of making oneself or something greater in power, status, or wealth.
He accused his coworkers of seeking self-aggrandizement.
Often appears as...
- self-aggrandizement
- political aggrandizement
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Formal
noun
The action of making oneself or something greater in power, status, or wealth.
He accused his coworkers of seeking self-aggrandizement.
Often appears as...
- self-aggrandizement
- political aggrandizement
Usage tips
Formal
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Self-Promotion
Often used negatively to describe someone trying to increase their own power or wealth.
His relentless aggrandizement at work turned his colleagues against him.
Pro Tip 2/3Political Context
Commonly used in contexts of political power increases or territorial expansion.
The senator's policies were criticized as attempts at personal aggrandizement rather than public service.
Pro Tip 3/3Economic Growth
Used to discuss growing wealth, often by corporations or countries, not individuals.
The company's rapid aggrandizement concerned the smaller competitors.
Pro Tip 1/3Self-Promotion
Often used negatively to describe someone trying to increase their own power or wealth.
His relentless aggrandizement at work turned his colleagues against him.
Pro Tip 2/3Political Context
Commonly used in contexts of political power increases or territorial expansion.
The senator's policies were criticized as attempts at personal aggrandizement rather than public service.
Pro Tip 3/3Economic Growth
Used to discuss growing wealth, often by corporations or countries, not individuals.
The company's rapid aggrandizement concerned the smaller competitors.
Pro Tip 1/3Self-Promotion
Often used negatively to describe someone trying to increase their own power or wealth.
His relentless aggrandizement at work turned his colleagues against him.
Pro Tip 2/3Political Context
Commonly used in contexts of political power increases or territorial expansion.
The senator's policies were criticized as attempts at personal aggrandizement rather than public service.
Pro Tip 3/3Economic Growth
Used to discuss growing wealth, often by corporations or countries, not individuals.
The company's rapid aggrandizement concerned the smaller competitors.
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Why we love, why we...
He became hooked on a sleeping mat, probably because of elevated activity of dopamine in his brain, just like with you and me. But anyway, not only does this person take on special meaning, you focus your attention on them. You aggrandize them. But you have intense energy.
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Mapping the Future of...
versus the way countries view the world. Cities are interested in trade and connectivity whereas, we think of countries being interested in territorial aggrandizement. And so, the more we move into a world in which that mentality of inter-urban connectivity
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Why we love, why we...
He became hooked on a sleeping mat, probably because of elevated activity of dopamine in his brain, just like with you and me. But anyway, not only does this person take on special meaning, you focus your attention on them. You aggrandize them. But you have intense energy.
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Mapping the Future of...
versus the way countries view the world. Cities are interested in trade and connectivity whereas, we think of countries being interested in territorial aggrandizement. And so, the more we move into a world in which that mentality of inter-urban connectivity
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Tom Steyer
American Businessman
As a businessman, Trump preyed on the hopes and anxieties of struggling middle-class families. He cheated and scammed employees and customers alike. He left behind a trail of bankrupted companies. Past is prologue, and Trump has continued to pursue his own aggrandizement ruthlessly and relentlessly as a candidate and as president-elect.
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Charles C. Mann
American Journalist
Historically, large-scale global trade has served two functions: 1) the exchange of goods between willing sellers and buyers described in Econ 101 textbooks; 2) as a tool of state aggrandizement, in which the private parties are stand-ins for governmental interests.
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Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
American Educator
We really can't tell the difference between people who might seek power for some greater good and people who seek power just to aggrandize themselves. For example, all revolutionaries say that they want to uplift the downtrodden.
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B. F. Skinner
American Psychologist
Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.
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Anthony Scaramucci
American Businessman
Wall Street has been beset with problems. The cycle of greed and personal aggrandizement and lifestyle grandstanding is an affront to any American.
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Peter Conrad
The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent.
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Tom Steyer
American Businessman
As a businessman, Trump preyed on the hopes and anxieties of struggling middle-class families. He cheated and scammed employees and customers alike. He left behind a trail of bankrupted companies. Past is prologue, and Trump has continued to pursue his own aggrandizement ruthlessly and relentlessly as a candidate and as president-elect.
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Charles C. Mann
American Journalist
Historically, large-scale global trade has served two functions: 1) the exchange of goods between willing sellers and buyers described in Econ 101 textbooks; 2) as a tool of state aggrandizement, in which the private parties are stand-ins for governmental interests.
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Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
American Educator
We really can't tell the difference between people who might seek power for some greater good and people who seek power just to aggrandize themselves. For example, all revolutionaries say that they want to uplift the downtrodden.
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B. F. Skinner
American Psychologist
Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.
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Anthony Scaramucci
American Businessman
Wall Street has been beset with problems. The cycle of greed and personal aggrandizement and lifestyle grandstanding is an affront to any American.
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Peter Conrad
The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent.
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