Definition of Advancement

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Advancement

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.

An advance of money or value; payment in advance. See Advance, 5.

Property given, usually by a parent to a child, in advance of a future distribution.

Settlement on a wife, or jointure.

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Advancement Quotations

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
John F. Kennedy

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
Peter Drucker

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
James Madison

Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.
Niels Bohr

Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.
Charles M. Schulz

Advancement only comes with habitually doing more than you are asked.
Gary Ryan Blair

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
H. G. Wells

The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
John Stuart Mill

Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
Ben Stein

Advancement Translations

advancement in French is ascension
advancement in Italian is avanzamento, avanzamento, ascensione
advancement in Spanish is conduccion, adelantamiento
advancement in Swedish is befordran

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