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advancement [ədˈvɑːnsmənt] n
1. promotion in rank, status, etc.; preferment 2. a less common word for advance [10] [11] 3. (Law) Property law the use during a testator's lifetime of money or property for the benefit of a child or other person who is a prospective beneficiary in the testator's will ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
advancement noun 1. promotion, rise, gain, growth, advance, progress, improvement, betterment, preferment, amelioration He cared little for social advancement. Translations advancement [ədˈvɑːnsmənt] n [science, technology, education, knowledge, learning] → avancement m [ethnic minorities, women] → émancipation f the advancement of women in business → la promotion des femmes dans le monde de l'entreprise advance notice n → préavis m advance payment n (= part sum) → acompte m (= total sum) → paiement anticipé advance warning n → préavis m We weren't given any advance warning of his visit → Nous n'avions pas été avertis de sa visite. advancement n (= furtherance) → Förderung f How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| He, I know--for the question had been discussed among us long before the Time Machine was made--thought but cheerlessly of the Advancement of Mankind, and saw in the growing pile of civilization only a foolish heaping that must inevitably fall back upon and destroy its makers in the end. The first might proceed from sinister designs in the leading members of a few of the State legislatures; the last would suppose a fixed and rooted disaffection in the great body of the people, which will either never exist at all, or will, in all probability, proceed from an experience of the inaptitude of the general government to the advancement of their happiness in which event no good citizen could desire its continuance. We go to France, and from thence I trust to Spain, in humble search of a field in which we may win advancement and perchance some small share of glory. |
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