Crossword clues for betterment
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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
1590s, from better (v.) + -ment.
Wiktionary
n. 1 An improvement. 2 (context legal English) An improvement to a property that adds to its value.
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]
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. When, for instance, some public improvement results in raising the value of a piece of private land, and the owner is thereby bettered through no merit of his own, he gains by the betterment, and many economists and politicians have sought to arrange, by taxation or otherwise, that the increased value shall come into the pocket of the public rather than into the owner's. A betterment tax would be assessed in order to divert from the owner of the property the profit thus accruing unearned to him. The whole problem is one of the incidence of taxation and the question of land values, and various applications of the principle of betterment have been tried in the United States and in England, raising considerable controversy from time to time.
Betterment (also known as Betterment.com) is an online-investment adviser registered by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission based in New York, New York. Betterment provides investment advice and diversified, fully automated investment management to customers for less than the typical cost of a traditional financial adviser or wealth manager. All transactions occur online - it is an execution-only service. Betterment does not have brokerage sales representatives or advisers.
Betterment is headquartered in New York City, and has received funding from Menlo Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Anthemis Group. Notable angel investors include Thomas Lehrman, Jason Finger, and Andy Dunn.
Due to the overall customer experience, including ease of use and emphasis on design, Betterment has been called the " Apple of finance."
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.