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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
morale
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
boost sb’s confidence/morale/ego
▪ The win boosted the team’s confidence.
flagging spirits/energy/morale
▪ By now the wine had lifted her flagging spirits.
morale/confidence booster
▪ Mail from home is a big morale booster for faraway troops.
morale/ego boost
▪ The poll provided a morale boost for the Conservatives.
staff morale (=how happy and confident the staff somewhere feel)
▪ Staff morale has been badly affected by the reorganisation.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
good
▪ Although these patients usually have astonishingly good morale and fighting spirit, everything humanely possible should be done to keep it up.
▪ No other key to good morale was as important.
▪ This calls for good spirits and good morale and also a certain amount of what was once called dogged determination.
▪ That is good for morale and for the user of services.
▪ The men in the combat columns, in fact, had developed a good morale.
▪ A win against the reigning world champions is always good for morale, but on this occasion it would be especially welcome.
▪ A second head placed equal stress on the importance of trust in the promotion of good morale.
high
▪ The integration of staff for training has led to a good exchange of ideas, greater enthusiasm, and higher staff morale.
▪ Fourth, decentralized institutions generate higher morale, more commitment, and greater productivity.
▪ Most here spoke of good spirit and high morale.
▪ In fact, the morale of the crew was very high, if morale was the right word.
▪ Mission-driven organizations have higher morale than rule-driven organizations.
▪ They had at their disposal a very powerful light infan-try army with experienced officers and very high morale.
low
▪ The major difficulties are overcrowding, lack of books and materials, and low teacher morale.
▪ On surveying the organizational ranks, they see only low morale, divisiveness, cynicism, and dulled thinking.
▪ A more recent report from the Department of Social Security indicated low morale and a lack of confidence in the organisation.
▪ Local Government is in a state of low morale and near collapse because of the poll tax.
▪ Military officials had argued that to do so would weaken unit cohesion and lower morale.
▪ It may also waste time and energy; it may be unproductive; it may lead to hostility and to low morale.
▪ A company will be adversely affected if it suffers from low employee morale, for example.
poor
▪ Mrs Thatcher's first government was plagued by leaks - a symptom of divisions and poor morale.
▪ In addition to poor patient morale induced by the Gordon administration, the letter registered other long-standing patient complaints.
▪ The army's sudden collapse has been attributed to poor leadership, exhaustion and poor morale.
▪ Working conditions in the department were poor and employee morale was low.
■ NOUN
booster
▪ Voice over Seeing the parachutes back in the air has been a great morale booster for the base.
▪ The Christmas Day morale booster was only the game show host's second trip outside hospital since his near-fatal crash.
▪ Such fairs are a great morale booster for any nurse who feels unappreciated.
▪ That kind of morale booster is infectious and they could well have won by a bigger margin.
▪ He brings a joy and an ebullience to his work which is a fantastic morale booster for the cast.
employee
▪ A company will be adversely affected if it suffers from low employee morale, for example.
▪ The astounding part was what they learned about the social dynamics of the workplace and how it affected employee morale and productivity.
▪ It's easier to dismiss reports of low employee morale than face the facts and act accordingly.
▪ Hiring and layoffs often go on simultaneously, much to the detriment of employee morale, leadership credibility, and budget health.
▪ Working conditions in the department were poor and employee morale was low.
▪ As a result, plant productivity gradually began to decline, along with overall product quality and employee morale.
problem
▪ Inadequate information also can lead to morale problems.
▪ A junior who is tired of sitting on the bench is creating morale problems.
▪ They are also facing a recruitment and morale problem.
▪ Great Groups rarely have morale problems.
▪ Budget shortages, poor pay and poor equipment contribute to morale problems, he said.
■ VERB
build
▪ Competition between teams-between organizations-#builds morale and encourages creativity.
▪ This autonomy not only fosters responsive government, it builds morale and unleashes creativity.
destroy
▪ Rose was not told this, for fear of destroying her morale.
help
▪ These men... helped to restore the morale of our army.
improve
▪ What would it do to improve morale inside the party?
▪ After two weeks I discontinued them after determining they were not significantly improving morale.
▪ Proper training of food handlers has a vital role in improving their morale and motivation and ensuring that standards are met.
▪ An effort was made to improve the morale and morals of the army.
▪ The staff meeting is the theatre for celebrating heroes, improving self-image and boosting morale.
▪ Radically reforming conditions inside prisons, reducing overcrowding, improving prison officers' morale and punishing offenders where possible within the community.
▪ Properly structured, hierarchy can release energy and creativity, rationalize productivity, and actually improve morale.
▪ That, at least, improved his morale.
keep
▪ And Mr Major was determined to keep up the morale.
▪ However, I do accept that occasionally it's necessary to promote a volunteer in order to keep up morale in the ranks.
▪ The most important thing was just physically keeping up the morale.
▪ It wouldn't have happened if Angie hadn't been around as well, to keep his morale high and encourage him.
▪ He keeps up their morale and always remembers to see that they are thanked properly.
maintain
▪ Secondly, how well those made redundant are treated is an important factor in maintaining the morale of those who stay behind.
▪ Adequate organization performance is possible through balancing the necessity to get out work while maintaining morale at a satisfactory level.
▪ The real reason, we believe, was to maintain public morale and support for the war.
▪ Employers could reduce labor costs and maintain rank-and-file morale by minimizing layoffs.
raise
▪ My appetite dwindled and even my favourite food, milk chocolate, failed to raise my morale.
▪ Trying to raise efficiency and morale without first setting this structure to rights is like trying to lay bricks without mortar.
▪ This was not quite a true story, he admitted, just a joke to raise Secord's morale.
▪ There is a need to continue the restoration of self-confidence in the teaching profession and to raise morale.
▪ He decided his first task was to try to raise the battered morale of his troops.
▪ Sensible and justifiable decisions, properly communicated would raise morale rather than diminish it.
▪ The spectre of redundancy has been raised, and morale from top to bottom has become a cause for deep concern.
▪ About this time, too, will have taken place an incident, said to have done much to raise morale.
restore
▪ These men... helped to restore the morale of our army.
undermine
▪ Recent national reforms had undermined teachers' morale, he said.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
keep your spirits/strength/morale etc up
▪ Crusty Bill boasts he's on a spicy vegetarian diet to keep his strength up for love.
▪ During the war years, it helped keep our spirits up and we need it again now.
▪ He had a strong sense of humour, and kept his spirits up.
▪ I had to keep my strength up.
▪ I told Tansy that she must keep her spirits up, that Rose might be needing her.
▪ She ate a little to keep her strength up.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Morale among the soldiers has been low.
▪ Morale in the sales division is high.
▪ Employees have complained about low morale.
▪ They sang songs to keep up their morale until the rescuers arrived.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An inadequate person in a job can lead to a sharp fall in morale or sales.
▪ In my opinion, the relative rigidity and compartmentalization of the program made for lowered technical efficiency and morale.
▪ No other key to good morale was as important.
▪ Prior appears dedicated to boosting morale.
▪ Trying to raise efficiency and morale without first setting this structure to rights is like trying to lay bricks without mortar.
▪ White House morale was very low.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Morale

Morale \Mo`rale"\, n. [F. See Moral, a.] The moral condition, or the condition in other respects, so far as it is affected by, or dependent upon, moral considerations, such as zeal, spirit, hope, and confidence; mental state, as of a body of men, an army, and the like.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
morale

1752, "moral principles or practice," from French morale "morality, good conduct," from fem. of Old French moral "moral" (see moral (adj.)). Meaning "confidence" (especially in a military context) first recorded 1831, from confusion with French moral (French distinguishes le moral "temperament" and la morale "morality").

Wiktionary
morale

n. The capacity of people to maintain belief in an institution or a goal, or even in oneself and others.

WordNet
morale

  1. n. a state of individual psychological well-being based upon a sense of confidence and usefulness and purpose

  2. the spirit of a group that makes the members want the group to succeed [syn: esprit de corps, team spirit]

Related phrases:
Wikipedia
Möräle

Möräle may refer to:

  • Murali, Arsky District, Republic of Tatarstan, a village (selo) in Arsky District of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia
  • Murali, Kaybitsky District, Republic of Tatarstan, a village (selo) in Kaybitsky District of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia
Morale (Rapper)

Thabo Malefane, better known by his stage name Morale, was born in Soweto in Meadowlands Zone 1 and has been rapping since he was in grade 5 in a group called Zodiac Sunz that never really got to release any music commercially. He was introduced to hip hop in 1993 but only made his break into the SA Hip Hop scene in 2007 with his Mixtape " Rising Son" that won him Mixtape of the year from Hype Magazine. He is the founder and CEO of Neo Shanty Music.

Usage examples of "morale".

It was quite normal that, if a city had suffered a particularly heavy raid, several railway batteries would be sent there immediately, partly to strengthen the defences against any follow-up raids, but mainly to bolster the morale of the bombed civilians.

Mais plus les imputations dirigees contre elle etaient vraisemblables, plus la creance accordee a ces imputations etait caracteristique, et attestait la ruine morale de la monarchie.

Finally in desperation the spineless Army chief informed the Fuehrer that the morale of the troops in the west was similar to that in 1917-18, when there was defeatism, insubordination and even mutiny in the German Army.

The screaming and cursing continued fitfully, but their morale seemed to be broken, and Hayward watched with relief as the mob scrabbled back in disorder.

English morale and spread a hedonistic, what-do-I-get-out-of-it attitude to life, has done nothing but harm.

Lord Bludd insisted that his presence would boost the morale of the jihadi soldiers who were sacrificing so much.

Sergei Morales, out of the Loma Linda group, he was telling me once about putting all the Loma Linda privateers together for a few operations.

From these we learned the repeated bombings had had their effect on the morale of the enemy and that an enormous reward had been offered by the Zani chief, Mephis, for the destruction of the ship or for my capture dead or alive.

In any event, she has made no sign of wrongdoing, other than possessing proscribed instruments in her diplomatic bag and generally being detrimental to morale by virtue of her rather unvirtuous conduct.

When day succeeded day without a sign of it, morale plummeted, the decline fueled by that stupid disaster at Valentia which Perperna had brought on when he refused to work with poor loyal Gaius Herennius.

It was a morale decay as insidious as a wasting disease in Weyr and Hold.

Formed originally by mixing men indiscriminately from throughout the nation, thus severing all personal, social, community, and regional bonds, identified by anonymous numbers and replenished through the notorious Repple Depples, their only source of morale, other than the shared experience of hazard and hardship, was the character and patriotism of the soldiers.

Contra factions, Eden Pastora, who admitted that he had indeed received large amounts of cash from Morales - as well as a C-47 aeroplane and two helicopters.

Southeast Asia, Cassidy found a way to boost morale: he created a photomontage of pictures taken by crewmembers in the various houses of prostitution they had visited while on their many NSA Sigint voyages.

Even in the primaries he lost -- New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania -- he did well enough to embarrass the pollsters, humiliate the pols, and crank up his staff morale another few notches.