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furtherances

furtherances is the plural of furtherance.

Meaning of furtherance

Noun

furtherance (countable and uncountable, plural furtherances)

  1. The act of furthering or helping forward; assistance towards something desired.
    • Though so profound a double-dealer, I was in no sense a hypocrite; both sides of me were in dead earnest; I was no more myself when I laid aside restraint and plunged in shame, than when I laboured, in the eye of day, at the furtherance of knowledge or the relief of sorrow and suffering.1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case”, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 107

Questions about furtherances

What is furtherances the plural of?
Furtherances is the plural of furtherance.

Words near furtherances in the dictionary

  1. further education
  2. further flung
  3. further-flung
  4. further-reaching
  5. furtherance
  6. furtherances
  7. furthered
  8. furtherer
  9. furtherers
  10. furtherest
  11. furthering

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