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📈 To make progress 📈 Progress ⏩ Ahead of time 💵 Money before work 💌 Flirtatious move 💡 To propose 💵 To pay early 💹 Price increase 💹 To rise in price
to advance

to advance

4 3.3
To rise in price or value
  • verb
  • /ədˈvæns/
: aumentar
  • Desiccation can advance the harvest date by a week or more without affecting the sunflowers.

It's going to advance and come back and it's going to keep, it's going to keep climbing.

Examples

  • Several factors are likely to advance this trend toward privatization in the wastewater treatment industry.

    Academic text (1997)

  • Due to high demand, the price of oil will likely advance in the coming months.

  • Rents, you know, as everybody has seen have advanced significantly since then.

  • In recent years, bioengineering has advanced to encompass organ transplants and tissue engineering.

    Academic text (2002)

  • The stock market is expected to advance as investors regain confidence in the economy.

  • Experts predict that housing prices will advance significantly this year.

Synonyms

to raise
vsto advance
∞ 2.9

To make an amount, level, or value higher

describes an increase that may happen without someone causing it
to gain
vsto advance
467 1.1

To get more of something over time, like weight or money

is limited to rises in price, value, or amount
to boost
vsto advance
271 2.5

To make something increase or work better

refers only to numeric rises in price, value, or amount
advancing
vsto advance
10 3.4

Moving forward or making progress slowly and steadily

means a numeric rise in price, value, or amount not progress

Antonyms

decrease
82 2.2

A drop in amount or number

Idioms

in advance
295 1.8

Before something happens or someone needs it

Compounds

cash advance
  • Specialized
12 3.8

Money you get before you earn it, often as a loan

film advance
  • Archaic
1 5.6

A part in a camera or projector that moves the film to the next picture

spark advance
  • Specialized
1 8.0

The timing of the spark that lights the fuel and air in an engine, measured by the piston's position

advance death benefit
  • Specialized
1 7.0

A part of life insurance paid early to a person likely to die soon

annuity in advance
  • Specialized
8.0

A series of payments people receive at the start of each period

How High

to spike
62 3.4
to surge
55 3.7
to jump
90 2.1
to advance
4 3.3
to rise
630 1.0
increase
559 1.0
uptick
23 5.6

Surface Forms

advance infinitive
advanced past
advanced past participle
advancing present participle
advances third person singular

Etymology

When prices advance, they go forward or up; the verb comes from Old French avancer (Latin ante 'before'), which is why we say a value 'advanced' when it rises.