Advance

/ədˈvɑːns/ · verb

Meaning

To promote or advantage..

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

an advance in health or knowledge

an advance in rank or office

Could he ask the cashier privately for an advance? No, the cashier was no good, no damn good: he wouldn't give an advance.

I shall, with pleasure, make the necessary advances.

an advance on the prime cost of goods

For, if it were of any use to recall matters of fact, what is more notorious, than that prince's applying himself first to the church of England? and upon their refusal to fall in with his measures, making the like advances to the dissenters of all kinds, who readily and almost universally complied with him

And so saying he scampered off to the hill, to the amusement of honest Plat; and it is likely lost no time in making his advances to the young widow.

As the sun fell, so did our spirits. I had tried to make advances to the girl again; but she would have none of me, and so I was not only thirsty but otherwise sad and downhearted.

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Word Forms

• advances
• advancing
• advanced
• advaunce
• more advance
• most advance

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