Other forms: elaborations
Elaboration is the adding of more detail to something. Further elaboration, without elaboration, elaboration of the plan.
It is the standard word for asking somebody to say more, and declining to give any is a way of closing a subject. In learning it names the technique of explaining something in your own words, which is one of the few that reliably works.
1nounelaborationThe adding of more detail to something.
“Could you give some elaboration on what you mean by better service?”
elaboration is an adding.
Latin elaborare means to work out, from ex plus labor, work.
Middle French
élaboration
English, today
elaboration
From Middle French élaboration. Morphologically elaborate + ion.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA