Advance

Quick meaning: Advance is a verb meaning To promote or advantage.

Meaning

To promote or advantage.

More Meanings

1. To move forward in space or time.
2. To raise, be raised.
3. A forward move; improvement or progression.
4. An amount of money or credit, especially given as a loan, or paid before it is due; an advancement.
5. An addition to the price; rise in price or value.
6. (often in the plural) An opening approach or overture, now especially of an unwelcome or sexual nature.
7. Completed before necessary or a milestone event.

Example Sentences

an advance in rank or office

an advance in health or knowledge

an advance on the prime cost of goods

I shall, with pleasure, make the necessary advances.

Word Forms

• advances
• advancing
• advanced
• advaunce

Synonyms for advance

Depending on context, synonyms include improve, assign, encourage, promote, approach, rise.

Antonyms for advance

Common opposites include regress, retract, retreat, regression, break, retrograde.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include progression, progress, advancement, further, promote, improvement.

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