Definition of Improvement

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Improvement

The act of improving; advancement or growth; promotion in desirable qualities; progress toward what is better; melioration; as, the improvement of the mind, of land, roads, etc.

The act of making profitable use or applicaton of anything, or the state of being profitably employed; a turning to good account; practical application, as of a doctrine, principle, or theory, stated in a discourse.

The state of being improved; betterment; advance; also, that which is improved; as, the new edition is an improvement on the old.

Increase; growth; progress; advance.

Valuable additions or betterments, as buildings, clearings, drains, fences, etc., on premises.

A useful addition to, or modification of, a machine, manufacture, or composition.

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Improvement Quotations

A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.
Thomas Jefferson

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.
Winston Churchill

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
Benjamin Franklin

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
Benjamin Franklin

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
Benjamin Franklin

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
George Orwell

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.
Tom Peters

Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.
Tom Peters

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
John Locke

Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.
Eric Hoffer

Improvement Translations

improvement in German is Neuerung
improvement in Italian is emendazione
improvement in Norwegian is forbedring
improvement in Spanish is mejora, mejoria

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