to advance
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3.4
- verb
- /ədˈvæns/
- The negotiations focused on how to reduce poverty, advance social equity, and ensure environmental protection.
- advance understanding
- advance technology
- advance knowledge
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Watch on YouTubeHe just cares about advancing his own corruption.
- He just cares about advancing his own corruption.
- And so we will advance that right through our efforts.
- Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one's ability to persuade.
- That is for both if they are providing money to advance that FTW product line.
- It's important because it's a major health issue that advances the health of our world.
- That will tend to phase advance your clock.
- Do the things that you can do to advance the people who go out and run.
- We're about how to advance innovations to solve that problem.
- We got them to agree to give up advancing their nuclear program.
- We prevent him from advancing into Europe.
- And don't come to me with an experiment that'll advance science by one step.
- It can be very, very useful and it's going to advance society very fast.
- Anything I can do that to help advance the things that you're interested in?
- When do I advance from this pole to that?
Examples
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Normally we try to advance one more step, right?
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Each participant was excited to continue to advance this educational model into the larger educational community.
Academic text (2015) -
Everything is used to advance your goals.
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Just find the next firm stone to advance your progress.
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His research promised to advance our primitive understanding of science.
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Some young people look elsewhere to advance their musical skills and keep their ears growing.
Academic text (2012) -
Building political support for the web while advancing web technology became his central passion.
Academic text (2012) -
The feedback provided by the tutor helped the children advance toward completion of the task.
Academic text (2012) -
As importantly, however, a skills-based approach fails to advance the progress of all students.
Academic text (2013) -
Paul Wicks says sharing information about your health can advance medical science and improve society.
Synonyms
∞
3.1
To start the next stage or activity and stop focusing on the past
∞
1.6
To grow or change slowly to become more mature
581
4.0
To change or develop slowly over time, often becoming more advanced
460
3.2
Help something grow and become more successful
418
3.2
Make progress with a project
341
2.1
Help something grow or develop
282
2.8
Getting better at a task or skill you are working on
271
2.5
To make something increase or work better
205
2.5
Move forward or get better over time
109
3.4
Do better than others, for example at work or school
90
3.5
To help something make progress or grow
72
2.7
To start or continue something so it gets closer to a goal
64
3.3
Move forward in a steady, determined way
58
2.1
Manage or do well in a situation
53
2.9
To get better or improve over time
52
3.1
To keep making progress despite problems
48
4.3
To go past a problem and start something better
48
3.2
Start to get better and more complete
32
3.5
To make slow progress when it is difficult
28
2.7
To move someone to a higher job or rank
25
4.0
To make progress and become more successful than others
24
3.2
Start to get better
22
4.4
To give someone a higher job or rank
13
3.4
To move into a leading position in a race or competition
10
3.4
Moving forward or making progress slowly and steadily
10
3.6
To move something closer to the front, for example a chair
7
3.6
Move on to a higher level after getting better
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
1
8.0
The timing of the spark that lights the fuel and air in an engine, measured by the piston's position
- Specialized
1
7.0
A part of life insurance paid early to a person likely to die soon
How Far
478
3.4
- Specialized
227
3.7
382
3.4
72
2.7
36
3.8
Surface Forms
Etymology
To advance a cause or help something develop comes from Old French avancer 'move forward' and Latin ante 'before', so to advance something is to push it ahead or make it go forward.