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improvement

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FromAnglo-Normanemprouwement. Bysurface analysis,improve +‎-ment.

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improvement (countable anduncountable,pluralimprovements)

  1. The act ofimproving;advancement or growth; abettering
    • November 9, 1662,Robert South,Of the Creation of Man in the Image of God
      I look upon your city as […] the best place ofimprovement.
    • 1783,Hugh Blair,Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres:
      Exercise is the chief source ofimprovement in all our faculties.
    • 1918,W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIX, inThe Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bobbs-Merrill Company,→OCLC:
      Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggestimprovements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.
    • 2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, inThe Economist, volume407, number8841, page70:
      Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.[…]Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operationalimprovement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today.
  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.
    • 1705,Samuel Clarke,Evidences of Natural and Revealed Religion:
      goodimprovement of his reason.
    • 1681,John Tillotson,A sermon preached at the funeral of the Reverend Mr Thomas Gouge:
      I shall make someimprovement of this doctrine.
  3. The state of being improved;betterment; advance
  4. Something which is improved
    the new edition is animprovement on the old.
  5. Increase; growth; progress; advance.
    • 1692–1717,Robert South,Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume(please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
      Those vices which more particularly receiveimprovement by prosperity.
  6. (in theplural) Valuable additions or betterments, for example buildings, clearings, drains, fences, etc., on premises.
  7. (Patent Laws): A useful addition to, or modification of, a machine, manufacture, or composition.

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act of improving—see alsoamendment,‎enhancement,‎augmentation,‎upgrade,‎boost

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References

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“improvement”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishimprovement.

Noun

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improvement m (invariable)

  1. (rare)improvement
    Synonyms:miglioramento,perfezionamento
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