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(<i>v. t.</i>) To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.<p>2. (<i>v. t.</i>) To raise; to elevate.<p>3. (<i>v. t.</i>) To raise to a higher rank; to promote.<p>4. (<i>v. t.</i>) To accelerate the growth or progress; to further; to forward; to help on; to aid; to heighten; as, to advance the ripening of fruit; to advance one's interests.<p>5. (<i>v. t.</i>) To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show; as, to advance an argument.<p>6. (<i>v. t.</i>) To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten.<p>7. (<i>v. t.</i>) To furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due, or in aid of an enterprise; to supply beforehand; as, a merchant advances money on a contract or on goods consigned to him.<p>8. (<i>v. t.</i>) To raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate; as, to advance the price of goods.<p>9. (<i>v. t.</i>) To extol; to laud.<p>10. (<i>v. i.</i>) To move or go forward; to proceed; as, he advanced to greet me.<p>11. (<i>v. i.</i>) To increase or make progress in any respect; as, to advance in knowledge, in stature, in years, in price.<p>12. (<i>v. i.</i>) To rise in rank, office, or consequence; to be preferred or promoted.<p>13. (<i>n.</i>) The act of advancing or moving forward or upward; progress.<p>14. (<i>v.</i>) Improvement or progression, physically, mentally, morally, or socially; as, an advance in health, knowledge, or religion; an advance in rank or office.<p>15. (<i>n.</i>) An addition to the price; rise in price or value; as, an advance on the prime cost of goods.<p>16. (<i>n.</i>) The first step towards the attainment of a result; approach made to gain favor, to form an acquaintance, to adjust a difference, etc.; an overture; a tender; an offer; -- usually in the plural.<p>17. (<i>n.</i>) A furnishing of something before an equivalent is received (as money or goods), towards a capital or stock, or on loan; payment beforehand; the money or goods thus furnished; money or value supplied beforehand.<p>18. (<i>a.</i>) Before in place, or beforehand in time; -- used for advanced; as, an advance guard, or that before the main guard or body of an army; advance payment, or that made before it is due; advance proofs, advance sheets, pages of a forthcoming volume, received in advance of the time of publication.<br /><br /><div class="hdg">Thesaurus</div><a href="brownian movement.htm">Brownian movement</a> <a href="great leap forward.htm">Great Leap Forward</a> <a href="wall street loan.htm">Wall Street loan</a> <a href="abet.htm">abet</a> <a href="accelerate.htm">accelerate</a> <a href="access.htm">access</a> <a href="accession.htm">accession</a> <a href="accommodate with.htm">accommodate with</a> <a href="accommodation.htm">accommodation</a> <a href="accomplishment.htm">accomplishment</a> <a href="accost.htm">accost</a> <a href="accretion.htm">accretion</a> <a href="accrual.htm">accrual</a> <a href="accrue.htm">accrue</a> <a href="accruement.htm">accruement</a> <a 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