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improvement noun [ ɪmˈpruːvm(ə)nt ]

• an example of improving or being improved.
• "an improvement in East–West relations"
Similar: advance, development, upgrade, change for the better, refinement, enhancement, furtherance, advancement, forwarding, boost, augmentation, raising, correction, rectification, rectifying, upgrading, amelioration, rally, recovery, upswing, breakthrough,
Opposite: deterioration,
Origin: late Middle English emprowement (in the sense ‘profitable management or use; profit’), from Anglo-Norman French, from emprower (see improve).


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