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UK
/bˈɛtəmənt/
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[ US /ˈbɛtɝmənt/ ]
[ US /ˈbɛtɝmənt/ ]
NOUN
- the act of relieving ills and changing for the better
- an improvement that adds to the value of a property or facility
- a change for the better; progress in development
How To Use betterment In A Sentence
- It is the final guard against nationalistic states that sought the betterment of their people first and foremost and not that of some hypothetical global village or for the internationalistic elite. Pravda blames trotskyites for u.s. empire
- The outcome of better science should be the betterment of society, on the whole, and an improvement in every individual's life.
- He praised the sterling work of the Friends of St. Patrick's for their enormous contributions to the betterment of the life of patients and staff at the hospital.
- The mission of the center is to seek the betterment of society through sports, according to the organization.
- What good is a dead man to the betterment of society?
- However, the coincidence of the onset of the new policies with the economic upturn caused by the improvement in the world economy convinced most that the new consensus was, indeed, the source of economic betterment.
- It was another aspect of the Government's decentralisation programme that was working for the betterment of local areas.
- They oscillate be - tween intramundane and supramundane conceptions of the future, but throughout there persists the belief that the final consummation is “beyond history” and that on this earth there can be no assurance of con - tinuing betterment. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
- It is likewise astonishing that people select homes, mostly for pecuniary betterment, when their children will mate or mismate with those whom they are thus thrown. Country life in Georgia in the days of my youth,
- Third, probably very few of the participants (other than perhaps adventitious semi-professional looters) expected to gain anything in terms of significant personal profit or meaningful social betterment as a consequence of the upheavals in Los Angeles. Matthew Yglesias » Endgame