Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The state of the spirits of a person or group as exhibited by confidence, cheerfulness, discipline, and willingness to perform assigned tasks.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Moral or mental condition as regards courage, zeal, hope, confidence, and the like: used especially of a body of men engaged in a hazardous enterprise, as soldiers or sailors in time of war.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
capacity of people tomaintain belief in an institution or a goal, or even in oneself and others.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the spirit of a group that makes the members want the group to succeed
- noun a state of individual psychological well-being based upon a sense of confidence and usefulness and purpose
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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There are lots of talented teachers in our schools and their morale is at rock bottom, never mind the stress from ridiculous (and usually irrelevant) expectations from senior managers.
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The French for what we call morale, writing it in italics under the impression that it is French, is actually moral.
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I do not know what you call it, but I call it "morale".
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How do you order layoffs, save every possible dime and maintain morale?
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Even the highest morale is eventually undermined by back-to-back deployments, poor pay, shortages of spare parts and equipment, inadequate training, and rapidly declining readiness.
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Even if things are horrible and morale is low, you do not want to go in and say so to your boss.
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Even if things are horrible and morale is low, you do not want to go in and say so to your boss.
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If morale is good then productivity will be higher and a willingness to become involved will be the ‘norm’ as opposed to the exception.
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Even if things are horrible and morale is low, you do not want to go in and say so to your boss.
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My own morale is vastly enhanced by a gun — I even have a license for it.
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