advancement
US /ədˈvænsmənt/
Definition
encouragement of the progress or growth or acceptance of something
Tested in TOEIC business and workplace contexts.
Examples
The company offers good opportunities for career advancement to hardworking employees.
Word Family
Synonyms
- promotiona message issued in behalf of some product or cause or idea or person or institution
- progressgradual improvement or growth or development
- growth(biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level
Collocations
- Easy career advancementto career advancement, meaning to move headlong at high speed
- Medium avenues for career advancementdescribing avenues for career advancement (a line of approach)
- Hard technological advancement in automationdescribing technological advancement in automation (based in scientific and industrial progress)
- Very Hard contribute to the advancement of knowledgeto contribute to the advancement of knowledge, meaning to bestow a quality on
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