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advancement definition

ad·vance·ment (ad vans′mənt, əd-)

noun

  1. an advancing or being advanced
  2. promotion, as to a higher rank
  3. progress or improvement; furtherance
  4. Law money or property given as an advance share in the estate of a person who later dies without making a will: it is deducted from the total share of the recipient in the intestate's estate

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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