advance
Definitions
- Anticipation of money.
- A forward move; improvement or progression.
- 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
- An amount of money or credit, especially given as a loan, or paid before it is due; an advancement.
- To help the progress of (something); to further. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
- progress
- Progress, overtaking, development, development of the intelligence, of the society, etc.
- An addition to the price; rise in price or value.
- To raise (someone) in rank or office; to prefer, to promote
- advance payment
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An opening approach or overture, now especially of an unwelcome or sexual nature. in-plural, often
- 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
- preview, trailer
- To move or push (something) forwards, especially forcefully
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
Equivalents
37 more languages
Azərbaycan diliavansbehçəkməkirəliləməkqabağa çəkməkqaldırmaqrütbəcə yüksəltməkvəzifəsini yüksəltməkyüksəltmək
Cymraegbenthyciad
Ελληνικάαβάντσα
Eestieel-
Suomiaikaistaaedetäedistysaskelennakkoennakkomaksuennakkopalkkioesittääetenemäeteneminenförskottihinnankorotuskorottaalähestyälähestyminenlainapalkkaennakkoylentää
עבריתהתקדמות
Kurdîbeh
Maltiavanza
Românăavansa
Русскийавансавансироватьзаемповыситьповышатьпродвигатьпродвига́тьсяпродвижениепродви́нутьпродви́нутьсяссуда
TagalogSumulong
isiZuluimvula
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.”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
See also
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