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Advance
ADV'ANCE, v.t. adv'ans. [Heb. surface, face; whence.]
1. To bring forward; to move further in front. Hence,
2. To promote; to raise to a higher rank; as, to advance one from the bar to the bench.
3. To improve or make better, which is considered as a progression or moving forward; as, to advance one's true interests.
4. To forward; to accelerate growth; as, to advance the growth of plants.
5. To offer or propose; to bring to view or notice; as, to advance an opinion or an argument.
6. In commerce, to supply beforehand; to furnish on credit, or before goods are delivered, or work done; or to furnish as a part of a stock or fund; as, to advance money on loan or contract, or towards a purchase or establishment.
7. To furnish for others; to supply or pay for others, in expectation of reimbursement.
They advanced the money out of their own funds, and took the sheriff's deeds in their own name.
8. To raise; to enhance; as, to advance the price of goods.
ADV'ANCE, v.i.
1. To move or go forward; to proceed; as, the troops advanced.
2. To improve, or make progress; to grow better, greater, wiser or older; as, to advance in knowledge, in stature, in wisdom, or in years.
3. To rise in rank, office, or consequence; to be preferred, or promoted; as, to advance in political standing.
ADV'ANCE, n.
1. A moving forward, or towards the front.
2. Gradual progression; improvement; as, an advance in religion or knowledge.
3. Advancement; promotion; preferment; as, an advance in rank or office.
4. First hint by way of invitation; first step towards an agreement; as, A made an advance towards a reconciliation with B. In this sense, it is very frequently used in the plural.
The amours of an empress require the plainest advances.
5. In trade, additional price; profit; as, an advance on the prime cost of goods.
6. A giving beforehand; a furnishing of something, on contract, before an equivalent is received, as money or goods, towards a capital or stock, or on loan; or the money or goods thus furnished; as, A made large advances to B.
7. A furnishing of money or goods for others, in expectation of reimbursement; or the property so furnished.
I shall, with great pleasure, make the necessary advances.
The account was made up with intent to show what advances had been made.
In advance, in front; before; also beforehand; before an equivalent is received, or when one partner in trade has furnished more than his proportion; as, A is in advance to B a thousand dollars or pounds.
advance appears in definitions for these words:
Abet Abreast Advance Advanced Advancement Advancer Advancive Advantage Alacrity Ancient Annuity Appetence Appreciated Approach Approximate Assertion Avantguard Averment Backwards Beautify Benefit Best Better Bigbellied Boot Bossage Bring Carry Cause Cavil Child Come Conduce Contributed Coquet Coquetry Coquette Corollary Countersign Cover Crawl Cultivate Cultivator Curvet Deduction Degree Dignity Discipline Discount Discounted Discounter Discounting Dissonant Dogmatist Dogmatize Draw Earliness Early Earnest Echelon Eld Elderly Eldest Encouragement Encroach Encroacher Encroachment Enhance Enhanced Enter Epiplocy Expedient Faith Farther First For Fore Foremost Forepart Forereach Forerun Forth Forward Forwarded Forwarder Forwardness Frontier Further Furtherance Furthered Furtherer Gain Get Go Gone Good Gradation Graduate Grand Ground Grow Grown Growth Guard Head Headmost Headway Height Heightened Help High Hight Hinderance Impenitence Imprest Improvable Improve Improved Improvement Inch Increase Keep Late Lateness Lay Lessen Lofty Make Management Manhood March Matronly Mature Matured Mend Monopolist Monopolizer Nigh Now Offer Old Oldness Onward Order Outfly Outgo Outstrip Patron Plaything Plinth Pontificate Position Prefer Preferment Presbyter Prevail Procede Profection Proficience Proficient Profit Profited Progress Progression Progressional Progressively Promise Promote Promoted Promoter Promotion Promotive Promove Proper Prosperity Public-spirited Public-spiritedness Put Raise Ranging Rapidity Rapture Read Ready Refund Reimburse Relevant Repay Repel Repelling Retract Retraction Retreat Return Rickets Ripe Rise Rout Seek Selfishly Senior Set Siege Sign Slowly Slowness Solemn Speculate Speculator Speed Sputter Stage Stationary Step Stricken Sturdy Superior Superiority Susceptible Sway Synthesis Thesis Thrift Thrive Tontine Traverse Turn Unimprovable Unimproved Unimproving Unpreferred Up Usefully Van Verdant Wage Walk Way Well-water
Abet Abreast Advance Advanced Advancement Advancer Advancive Advantage Alacrity Ancient Annuity Appetence Appreciated Approach Approximate Assertion Avantguard Averment Backwards Beautify Benefit Best Better Bigbellied Boot Bossage Bring Carry Cause Cavil Child Come Conduce Contributed Coquet Coquetry Coquette Corollary Countersign Cover Crawl Cultivate Cultivator Curvet Deduction Degree Dignity Discipline Discount Discounted Discounter Discounting Dissonant Dogmatist Dogmatize Draw Earliness Early Earnest Echelon Eld Elderly Eldest Encouragement Encroach Encroacher Encroachment Enhance Enhanced Enter Epiplocy Expedient Faith Farther First For Fore Foremost Forepart Forereach Forerun Forth Forward Forwarded Forwarder Forwardness Frontier Further Furtherance Furthered Furtherer Gain Get Go Gone Good Gradation Graduate Grand Ground Grow Grown Growth Guard Head Headmost Headway Height Heightened Help High Hight Hinderance Impenitence Imprest Improvable Improve Improved Improvement Inch Increase Keep Late Lateness Lay Lessen Lofty Make Management Manhood March Matronly Mature Matured Mend Monopolist Monopolizer Nigh Now Offer Old Oldness Onward Order Outfly Outgo Outstrip Patron Plaything Plinth Pontificate Position Prefer Preferment Presbyter Prevail Procede Profection Proficience Proficient Profit Profited Progress Progression Progressional Progressively Promise Promote Promoted Promoter Promotion Promotive Promove Proper Prosperity Public-spirited Public-spiritedness Put Raise Ranging Rapidity Rapture Read Ready Refund Reimburse Relevant Repay Repel Repelling Retract Retraction Retreat Return Rickets Ripe Rise Rout Seek Selfishly Senior Set Siege Sign Slowly Slowness Solemn Speculate Speculator Speed Sputter Stage Stationary Step Stricken Sturdy Superior Superiority Susceptible Sway Synthesis Thesis Thrift Thrive Tontine Traverse Turn Unimprovable Unimproved Unimproving Unpreferred Up Usefully Van Verdant Wage Walk Way Well-water
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