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Definition of Advance

Advance To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on. To raise; to elevate. To raise to a higher rank; to promote. To accelerate the growth or progress; to further; to forward; to help on; to aid; to heighten; as, to advance the ripening of fruit; to advance one's interests. To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show; as, to advance an argument. To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten. To furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due, or in aid of an enterprise; to supply beforehand; as, a merchant advances money on a contract or on goods consigned to him. To raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate; as, to advance the price of goods. To extol; to laud. To move or go forward; to proceed; as, he advanced to greet me. To increase or make progress in any respect; as, to advance in knowledge, in stature, in years, in price. To rise in rank, office, or consequence; to be preferred or promoted. The act of advancing or moving forward or upward; progress. Improvement or progression, physically, mentally, morally, or socially; as, an advance in health, knowledge, or religion; an advance in rank or office. An addition to the price; rise in price or value; as, an advance on the prime cost of goods. The first step towards the attainment of a result; approach made to gain favor, to form an acquaintance, to adjust a difference, etc.; an overture; a tender; an offer; -- usually in the plural. A furnishing of something before an equivalent is received (as money or goods), towards a capital or stock, or on loan; payment beforehand; the money or goods thus furnished; money or value supplied beforehand. Before in place, or beforehand in time; -- used for advanced; as, an advance guard, or that before the main guard or body of an army; advance payment, or that made before it is due; advance proofs, advance sheets, pages of a forthcoming volume, received in advance of the time of publication. Related Definitions: Accelerate, Acquaintance, Act, Addition, Adjust, Advance, Advanced, Advancing, Aid, An, Any, Approach, Argument, Army, As, Attainment, Be, Before, Beforehand, Body, Bring, Capital, Consequence, Consigned, Contract, Cost, Date, Difference, Due, Elevate, Enhance, Enterprise, Equivalent, Event, Extol, Favor, First, For, Form, Forthcoming, Forward, Front, Fruit, Furnish, Furnished, Furnishing, Further, Gain, Go, Goods, Greet, Growth, Guard, Hasten, He, Health, Heighten, Help, Him, Improvement, In, Increase, Is, It, Knowledge, Laud, Loan, Made, Main, Make, Me, Mentally, Merchant, Morally, Move, Moving, Money, Notice, Of, Offer, Office, On, One, Or, Other, Overture, Payment, Physically, Place, Plural, Point, Preferred, Price, Prime, Proceed, Progress, Progression, Promote, Promoted, Propose, Publication, Raise, Rank, Rate, Received, Religion, Respect, Result, Ripening, Rise, Show, Socially, Something, Stature, Step, Stock, Supplied, Supply, Tender, That, The, Thus, Time, To, Towards, Upward, Used, Value, Van, View, Volume

Advance Quotations Our view is that economic isolationism is the wrong way to go. Vibrant, successful growing economies that advance the interests of their citizens engage the global economy. And, we're committed to engaging the global economy. John W. Snow Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people. George W. Bush The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. Franklin D. Roosevelt To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science. Albert Einstein You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way. Will Rogers

Advance Translations advance in Afrikaans is naderkom advance in Dutch is gaan naar, aanpakken, genaken, naderen advance in German is Fortschritt, fortschreiten advance in Italian is anticipo, avanzare, avvicinarse, avanzamento advance in Latin is progressus, prodeo, progressio, progredior advance in Spanish is avance, adelanto, acercarse

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