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
The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
James Madison
The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
H. G. Wells
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
The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
John Stuart Mill
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
Advancement only comes with habitually doing more than you are asked.
Gary Ryan Blair
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
For the baby boomer generation, a home is now seen not as the cornerstone of advancement but a ball and chain, restricting their ability and their mobility to move and seek out a job at another location.
Mortimer Zuckerman
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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