ADVANCE

advance

Noun

  1. A forward move; improvement or progression.
    an advance in health or knowledge
    an advance in rank or office
  2. An amount of money or credit, especially given as a loan, or paid before it is due; an advancement.
  3. An addition to the price; rise in price or value.
    an advance on the prime cost of goods
  4. An opening approach or overture, especially of an unwelcome or sexual nature.

Verb

  1. To bring forward; to move towards the front; to make to go on.
  2. To raise; to elevate.
    They advanced their eyelids. — Shakespeare
  3. To raise to a higher rank; to promote.
  4. To accelerate the growth or progress of; to further; to forward; to help on; to aid; to heighten.
    to advance the ripening of fruit
    to advance one's interests
  5. To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show.
    to advance an argument
  6. To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten.
  7. To furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due, or in aid of an enterprise; to supply beforehand.
    Merchants often advance money on a contract or on goods consigned to them.
  8. To raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate.
    to advance the price of goods
  9. To move forwards, to approach.
    He rose from his chair and advanced to greet me.
  10. To extol; to laud.

Adjective

  1. Completed before need or a milestone event.
    He made an advance payment on the prior shipment to show good faith.
  2. Preceding.
    The advance man came a month before the candidate.
  3. Forward.
    The scouts found a site for an advance base.


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