Meaning of advance | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Anticipation of money.
2. A forward move; improvement or progression.
3. To promote or advantage. To help the progress of (something); to further. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller} To raise (someone) in rank or office; to prefer, to promote
4. An amount of money or credit, especially given as a loan, or paid before it is due; an advancement.
5. To help the progress of (something); to further. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
6. progress
7. Progress, overtaking, development, development of the intelligence, of the society, etc.
8. An addition to the price; rise in price or value.
9. To raise (someone) in rank or office; to prefer, to promote
10. advance payment
11. An opening approach or overture, now especially of an unwelcome or sexual nature.
    in-plural, often
12. To move forward in space or time. To move or push (something) forwards, especially forcefully. To make (something) happen at an earlier time or date; to bring forward, to hasten
13. preview, trailer
14. To move or push (something) forwards, especially forcefully
15. first/third-person singular present subjunctive

Equivalents

Examples

“an advance in health or knowledge”

“an advance in rank or office”

“Could he ask the cashier privately for an advance? No, the cashier was no good, no damn good: he wouldn't give an advance.”

“I shall, with pleasure, make the necessary advances.”

“an advance on the prime cost of goods”

“For, if it were of any use to recall matters of fact, what is more notorious, than that prince's applying himself first to the church of England? and upon their refusal to fall in with his measures, making the like advances to the dissenters of all kinds, who readily and almost universally complied with him”

“As the sun fell, so did our spirits. I had tried to make advances to the girl again; but she would have none of me, and so I was not only thirsty but otherwise sad and downhearted.”

“I felt vaguely he was a sneak, and remained quite unmollified by advances on his side, which, in a boy's barbarous fashion, unless it suited me to be magnanimous, I haughtily ignored.”

“[A]nd Rosamund though quite a genteelly brought up young lady had responded to his advances by slapping his face.”

“In public he put on a performance that was at once outraged and outrageous, but usually he did not carry grudges into his private life. Exuding the backslapping air of a socializer who loved to gamble and drink, he could not understand why people whose careers he had ruined and publicly ridiculed would be hostile to his friendly advances.”

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