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Another word for furtherance

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Noun

  1. Forward movement

      1. Movement or change from one member of a continuous series to the next:
      2. A continuous series; a sequence:
      3. A series of numbers or quantities in which there is always the same relation between each quantity and the one succeeding it.
      1. Forward or onward movement, as toward a destination:
      2. Development, advancement, or improvement, as toward a goal:
      3. A ceremonial journey made by a sovereign through his or her realm.
      1. To walk steadily and rhythmically forward in step with others.
      2. To begin to move in such a manner:
      3. To proceed directly and purposefully:
      1. Forward movement or the rate of forward movement, especially of a ship.
      2. Progress toward a goal.
      3. The clear vertical space beneath a ceiling or archway; clearance.
      1. A forward step; an improvement.
      2. Development; progress:
      3. A promotion, as in rank.
      1. To cause to move forward:
      2. To put forward; propose or suggest:
      3. To aid the growth or progress of:
    See also:

    forward

    better

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Another word for furtherance

Noun
      1. Movement or change from one member of a continuous series to the next:
      2. A continuous series; a sequence:
      3. A series of numbers or quantities in which there is always the same relation between each quantity and the one succeeding it.
      1. The act of promoting someone to a higher job, grade, or rank, or the fact of being so promoted.
      2. Support or encouragement of the progress, growth, or acceptance of something; furtherance:
      3. Advertising; publicity.
      1. A forward step; an improvement.
      2. Development; progress:
      3. A promotion, as in rank.
    See also:

    progress

    improvement

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Sentence Examples

  • He spent his whole strength in the furtherance of his ideas.

  • Already the nations are groaning under the burdens of militarism, and are for ever diverting energies that might be employed in the furtherance of useful productive work to purposes of an opposite character.

  • Small's swing plough and Andrew Meikle's threshing-machine, although invented some years before this, were now perfected and brought into general use, to the great furtherance of agriculture.

  • Athanasius was a man of action, but he also knew how to use his pen for the furtherance of his cause.

  • In 1643, when the full legal establishment of Presbytery had just been consummated, the assembly, asked by the English W parliament to arrange a league to be signed in both countries for the furtherance of reformed religion, agreed, but asked that the league should be a religious one.

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