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Noun betterment has 3 senses

• betterment(n = noun.event) advance, improvement - a change for the better; progress in development; Array
has particulars: resurgence, revitalisation, revitalization, revival, revivification, elaboration, refinement, accommodation, adjustment, fitting, conservation, preservation, recovery
is a kind of shift, transformation, transmutation
Derived form verb better₃

• betterment(n = noun.state) Array - an improvement that adds to the value of a property or facility; Array
is a kind of improvement, melioration

• betterment(n = noun.act) amelioration, melioration - the act of relieving ills and changing for the better; Array
is a kind of improvement
Derived form verb better₂

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betterment

Great Leap Forward, about-face, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, advance, advancement, alteration, amelioration, amendment, apostasy, ascent, bettering, boost, break, change, change of heart, changeableness, constructive change, continuity, conversion, defection, degeneration, degenerative change, deterioration, deviation, difference, discontinuity, divergence, diversification, diversion, diversity, enhancement, enrichment, eugenics, euthenics, fitting, flip-flop, furtherance, gradual change, headway, improvement, lift, melioration, mend, mending, mitigation, modification, modulation, overthrow, pickup, preferment, progress, progression, promotion, qualification, radical change, re-creation, realignment, recovery, redesign, reform, reformation, remaking, renewal, reshaping, restoration, restructuring, reversal, revival, revivification, revolution, rise, shift, sudden change, switch, total change, transition, turn, turnabout, upbeat, upheaval, uplift, upping, upswing, uptrend, upward mobility, variation, variety, violent change, worsening

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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.

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