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Definition of Betterment

1. Noun. A change for the better; progress in development.

2. Noun. An improvement that adds to the value of a property or facility.

3. Noun. The act of relieving ills and changing for the better.

Definition of Betterment

1. n. A making better; amendment; improvement.

Definition of Betterment

1. Noun. An improvement. ¹

2. Noun. (legal) An improvement to a property that adds to its value. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Betterment

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Betterment

better late than never better light better off better off(p) better safe than sorry better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick better than nothing better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness bettered

betterer betterhood bettering betterish betterment (current term) betterments bettermost bettern't betterness betternesses

betters betther betties betting betting odds betting parlor betting parlors betting shop betting shops

Literary usage of Betterment

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1916)
"As the nature of the first three requirements is to a large extent dependent upon the teacher, she may be regarded as the largest factor in civic betterment ..."

2. Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention by Religious Education Association (1908)
"I. RELIGION IS A GREAT SOCIAL FORCE AND MAKES FOR betterment 1. It would not be difficult to ... This great social force, religion, makes for betterment. ..."

3. Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention by Religious Education Association (1908)
"I. RELIGION IS A GREAT SOCIAL FORCE AND MAKES FOR betterment 1. It would not be difficult to ... This great social force, religion, makes for betterment. ..."

4. The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study by William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, Isabel Eaton (1899)
"IDEALS OF betterment. In view of the general purpose of this investigation, it is proper to discuss in conclusion the question of the improvement of ..."

5. Unified Accounting Methods for Industrials by Clinton Edgar Woods (1917)
"betterment Orders These betterment orders are made out in quadruplicate, and should be numbered consecutively, and dated; in case a betterment order is ..."

6. Education and National Character by Religious Education Association (1908)
"I. RELIGION IS A GREAT SOCIAL FORCE AND MAKES FOR betterment 1. It would not be difficult to ... This great social force, religion, makes for betterment. ..."

7. Popular Law-making: A Study of the Origin, History, and Present Tendencies by Frederic Jesup Stimson (1910)
"The matter of betterment taxes may be dismissed with a word, as it is hardly, in theory, taxation at all, but rather using municipal agencies to collect the ..."

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