Meaning of ADVANCEMENT
| Pronunciation: | | ad'vansmunt
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- [n] gradual improvement or growth or development; "advancement of knowledge"; "great progress in the arts"; "their research and development gave them an advantage"
- [n] the act of moving forward toward a goal
- [n] encouragement of the progress or growth or acceptance of something
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| | Synonyms: | | advance, forward motion, furtherance, onward motion, progress, progression, promotion |
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| | See Also: | | career, clear sailing, development, easy going, encouragement, forwarding, furtherance, leapfrog, life history, march, motion, move, movement, plain sailing, promotion, push, stride, workflow | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Ad*vance"ment\ ([a^]d*v[.a]ns"ment), n. [OE.
avancement, F. avancement. See {Advance}, v. t.]
1. The act of advancing, or the state of being advanced;
progression; improvement; furtherance; promotion to a
higher place or dignity; as, the advancement of learning.
In heaven . . . every one (so well they love each
other) rejoiceth and hath his part in each other's
advancement. --Sir T. More.
True religion . . . proposes for its end the joint
advancement of the virtue and happiness of the
people. --Horsley.
2. An advance of money or value; payment in advance. See
{Advance}, 5.
3. (Law) Property given, usually by a parent to a child, in
advance of a future distribution.
4. Settlement on a wife, or jointure. [Obs.] --Bacon.
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| | Definition: | | Success in both your professional and private life is waiting for you
if you dream of experiencing any kind of advancement.
When you dream of others advancing and leaving you behind, it might
reflect fears of being overtaken by the competition. |
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| | Related Terms: | | accomplishment, advance, advancing, aggrandizement, amelioration, amendment, amplification, anabasis, ascent, bettering, betterment, blossoming, boost, career, course, development, developmental change, dignification, elaboration, elevation, enhancement, enlargement, ennoblement, enrichment, eugenics, euthenics, evolution, evolutionary change, evolvement, evolving, exaltation, expansion, expediting, expedition, explication, facilitation, flowering, forward motion, forwardal, forwarding, furtherance, furthering, go-ahead, gradual change, graduation, Great Leap Forward, growth, headway, helping along, improvement, knighting, lending, lending at interest, lend-lease, lift, loaning, loan-sharking, magnification, march, maturation, melioration, mend, mending, moneylending, natural development, natural growth, nonviolent change, ongoing, onward course, passage, passing, pay raise, pickup, preference, preferential treatment, preferment, proficiency, progress, progression, progressiveness, promotion, raise, raising, recovery, restoration, revival, ripening, rise, rolling, rolling on, rushing, shylocking, special treatment, speeding, travel, upbeat, upgrading, uplift, uplifting, upping, upswing, uptrend, upward mobility, usury, way |
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