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Definition of Advancement
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

While all of these are important and significant events, it is the United States' foreign policy that furthers the advancement of freedoms and rights for women that is the most striking for me.
Ginny B. Waite

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

The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.
Jean de la Bruyere

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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