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An improvement that adds to the value of a property or facility
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betterment
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Betterment \Bet"ter*ment\, n. A making better; amendment; improvement. --W. Montagu. (Law) An improvement of an estate which renders it better than mere repairing would do; -- generally used in the plural. [U. S.] --Bouvier.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, from better (v.) + -ment .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Betterment , making better, is a general term used particularly in connection with the increased value given to real property by causes for which a tenant or the public, but not the owner, is responsible; it is thus of the nature of unearned increment. ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a change for the better; progress in development [syn: improvement , advance ] an improvement that adds to the value of a property or facility the act of relieving ills and changing for the better [syn: amelioration , melioration ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ For generations, pianos were purchased overwhelmingly by parents, as a vehicle of betterment for their children. ▪ If you achieve some betterment , give further thought to other things you want to alter. ▪ Our only goal was for ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An improvement. 2 (context legal English) An improvement to a property that adds to its value.
Usage examples of betterment.
Partly to herself, he thought coldly, this same process repeated a hundred times before with varying degrees of twisted truths and violence, with other innocents he needed to use for the betterment of France, men so much easier to deal with than women.
My thankfulness that she had misconceived the position stirred me to leave no stone unturned for the betterment of the destitute bill of fare.
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Many of the poor, hitherto Anabaptists, thronged to it in hopes of social betterment.
The colonel stands wonderful well with our folks, and he 'll not let all this first-rate land, with such capital betterments, go out of the family without an iffort, I conclude--but then I calcilate on _his_ being killed--there must be a disperate lot on 'em shot, afore the war's over, and _he_ is as likely to be among 'em as another.
This apparent simple-mindedness lasted all the time it took the general to learn the strength and weakness of Les Aigues, to master the details of its revenues and the manner of collecting them, and to ascertain how and where the robberies occurred, together with the betterments and economies which ought to be undertaken.
They'd agreed to the idea of a Royal Society for the Betterment of Mankind, but since this largely consisted of as much time as Shawn Ogg had to spare on Thursday afternoons Mankind was safe from too much Betterment for a while, although Shawn had invented draught excluders for some of the windier parts of the castle, for which the King had awarded him a small medal.
He pointed out that the ministrations of the accused had effected no betterment, but that the illness had rapidly got worse.