boosting

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present participle of

to increase or improve something:

The company is looking for ways to boost sales in Asia, its biggest market.

I tried to boost his morale by praising his cooking.

Share prices were boosted by reports of the president's recovery.

to give someone a booster vaccine (= a small amount of a substance put into a person's body to protect them from illness, that increases the effect of the same substance that was given some time before):

The government mounted a public health campaign urging everyone to get boosted before the winter flu season.

More than half of over 18s in the country have now been boosted against Covid.