noun
advancement
CEFR B2
encouragement of the progress or growth or acceptance of something
In a sentence
Six example sentences with advancement, each labelled with its topic.
The accelerator exists for the advancement of ideas too odd for banks, and it funds twelve of them yearly.
Startups
Cheap patents did more for the advancement of small workshops than any tariff the ministry ever argued for.
Economics
The society was founded for the advancement of open inquiry, and it still publishes arguments it strongly disagrees with.
Philosophy
The society was chartered in 1831 for the advancement of science, and its meetings still draw researchers from every field.
Science
Nineteenth-century libraries were funded for the advancement of learning among workers who could not afford books of their own.
History
The foundation gives grants for the advancement of printmaking, buying presses for schools that had abandoned the craft.
Art
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