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betterment

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Noun
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun betterment has 3 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

bettermentn. 
  •  A making better; amendment; improvement.  W. Montagu.  [1913 Webster]
  •  An improvement of an estate which renders it better than mere repairing would do; -- generally used in the plural.  Bouvier.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

betterment, n.
1 making better; improvement.
2 Econ. enhanced value (of real property) arising from local improvements.

THESAURUS

betterment

Great Leap Forward, about-face, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, advance, advancement, alteration, amelioration, amendment, apostasy, ascent, bettering, boost, break, change, change of heart, changeableness, constructive change, continuity, conversion, defection, degeneration, degenerative change, deterioration, deviation, difference, discontinuity, divergence, diversification, diversion, diversity, enhancement, enrichment, eugenics, euthenics, fitting, flip-flop, furtherance, gradual change, headway, improvement, lift, melioration, mend, mending, mitigation, modification, modulation, overthrow, pickup, preferment, progress, progression, promotion, qualification, radical change, re-creation, realignment, recovery, redesign, reform, reformation, remaking, renewal, reshaping, restoration, restructuring, reversal, revival, revivification, revolution, rise, shift, sudden change, switch, total change, transition, turn, turnabout, upbeat, upheaval, uplift, upping, upswing, uptrend, upward mobility, variation, variety, violent change, worsening

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Improvement

N improvement, amelioration, melioration, betterment, mend, amendment, emendation, mending, advancement, advance, ascent, promotion, preferment, elevation, increase, cultivation, civilization, culture, march of intellect, menticulture, race-culture, eugenics, reform, reformation, revision, radical reform, second thoughts, correction, limoe labor, refinement, elaboration, purification, oxidation, repair, recovery, revise, new edition, reformer, radical, improving, progressive, improved, better, better off, better for, all the better for, better advised, reformatory, emendatory, reparatory, remedial, corrigible, improvable, accultural, on consideration, on reconsideration, on second thoughts, on better advice, ad melius inquirendum, urbent latericiam invenit marmoream reliquit.

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