emprovement

Noun

improvement (countable and uncountable, plural improvements)

1. The act of improving; advancement or growth; a bettering
   • November 9, 1662, Robert South, Of the Creation of Man in the Image of God
     I look upon your city as […] the best place of improvement.
2. The act of making profitable use or application of anything, or the state of being profitably employed; practical application, for example of a doctrine, principle, or theory, stated in a discourse.
   • good improvement of his reason.1705, Samuel Clarke, Evidences of Natural and Revealed Religion
3. The state of being improved; betterment; advance
4. Something which is improved
   • the new edition is an improvement on the old.
5. Increase; growth; progress; advance.
   • Those vices which more particularly receive improvement by prosperity.1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London
6. (in plural) Valuable additions or betterments, for example buildings, clearings, drains, fences, etc., on premises.

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