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advance

advance

69 4.9
An increase in price or value
  • noun
  • /ədˈvæns/
translation icon : aumento
  • Well, there have been fabulous advances in the field of dentistry.

Examples

  • Consider this as an advance.

  • The many advances in sports medicine.

  • Rapid as its growth may have been in earlier years, opportunities for material advance are now exhausted.

    Academic text (1992)
  • Which is why you should get paycheck advance from Current.

  • There have been a lot of advances in the nineties, baby.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • The advance that they're offering is gonna make you and me millionaires.

  • You've had seven years and the largest advance we've ever given.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • Although not published in peer-reviewed or academic journals, these papers represented an advance because of their large sample sizes.

    Academic text (2017)
  • That's a significant advance for financial inclusion for Salvadorans.

  • Investors were thrilled to learn of a significant advance in the company's stock price following the new product launch.

Synonyms

rise
vsadvance
432 1.9

An increase in amount or value

is a more business-focused increase in price or value
appreciation
vsadvance
  • Specialized
17 4.2

An increase in the value of something over time

is a broader commercial increase not only gradual value growth

Antonyms

439 3.9

A gradual loss in amount, quality, or value

Idioms

278 1.8

Before something happens or someone needs it

Compounds

cash advance
  • Specialized
9 3.8

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

advance death benefit
  • Specialized
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

film advance
  • Archaic
5.6

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

spark advance
  • Specialized
8.0

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

How High

to spike
51 3.4
to surge
41 3.7
jump
73 3.3
advance
69 4.9
rise
432 1.9
increase
524 1.0

Surface Forms

advance singular
advances plural

Etymology

An advance in price or value uses the same idea: it comes from Old French avancer and Latin ante 'before', so an advance is a movement forward in value.