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Noun advancement has 3 senses

• advancement(n = noun.communication) furtherance, promotion - encouragement of the progress or growth or acceptance of something; Array
is a kind of encouragement
Derived form verb advance₉

• advancement(n = noun.act) advance, forward motion, onward motion, procession, progress, progression - the act of moving forward (as toward a goal); Array
is a kind of motion, move, movement
has particulars: push, career, life history, march, clear sailing, easy going, plain sailing, leapfrog
Derived forms verb advance₈, verb advance₁, verb advance₅

• advancement(n = noun.act) progress - gradual improvement or growth or development; "advancement of knowledge"; "great progress in the arts"
has particulars: forwarding, furtherance, promotion, stride, work flow, workflow
is a kind of development
Derived form verb advance₈

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advancement

Great Leap Forward, accomplishment, advance, advancing, aggrandizement, amelioration, amendment, amplification, anabasis, ascent, bettering, betterment, blossoming, boost, career, course, development, developmental change, dignification, elaboration, elevation, enhancement, enlargement, ennoblement, enrichment, eugenics, euthenics, evolution, evolutionary change, evolvement, evolving, exaltation, expansion, expediting, expedition, explication, facilitation, flowering, forward motion, forwardal, forwarding, furtherance, furthering, go-ahead, gradual change, graduation, growth, headway, helping along, improvement, knighting, lend-lease, lending, lending at interest, lift, loan-sharking, loaning, magnification, march, maturation, melioration, mend, mending, moneylending, natural development, natural growth, nonviolent change, ongoing, onward course, passage, passing, pay raise, pickup, preference, preferential treatment, preferment, proficiency, progress, progression, progressiveness, promotion, raise, raising, recovery, restoration, revival, ripening, rise, rolling, rolling on, rushing, shylocking, special treatment, speeding, travel, upbeat, upgrading, uplift, uplifting, upping, upswing, uptrend, upward mobility, usury, way

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Improvement

N improvement, amelioration, melioration, betterment, mend, amendment, emendation, mending, advancement, advance, ascent, promotion, preferment, elevation, increase, cultivation, civilization, culture, march of intellect, menticulture, race-culture, eugenics, reform, reformation, revision, radical reform, second thoughts, correction, limoe labor, refinement, elaboration, purification, oxidation, repair, recovery, revise, new edition, reformer, radical, improving, progressive, improved, better, better off, better for, all the better for, better advised, reformatory, emendatory, reparatory, remedial, corrigible, improvable, accultural, on consideration, on reconsideration, on second thoughts, on better advice, ad melius inquirendum, urbent latericiam invenit marmoream reliquit.

Progression

N progress, progression, progressiveness, advancing, advance, advancement, ongoing, flood, tide, headway, march, rise, improvement, advancing, progressive, profluent, advanced, forward, onward, forth, on, ahead, under way, en route for, on one's way, on the way, on the road, on the high road, on the road to, in progress, in mid progress, in transitu, vestigia nulla retrorsum, westward the course of empire takes its way.

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