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"text": "November 9, 1662, Robert South, Of the Creation of Man in the Image of God\nI look upon your city as […] the best place of improvement."
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"ref": "1783, Hugh Blair, Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres:",
"text": "Exercise is the chief source of improvement in all our faculties.",
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"ref": "1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIX, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:",
"text": "Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.",
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"ref": "2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70:",
"text": "Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.[…]Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today.",
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"sense": "act of improving",
"word": "peningkatan"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "act of improving",
"word": "perbaikan"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "act of improving",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "feabhas"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"note": "in health",
"sense": "act of improving",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "biseach"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "act of improving",
"word": "miglioramento"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "act of improving",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "salto di qualità"
},
{
"alt": "かいぜん",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kaizen",
"sense": "act of improving",
"word": "改善"
},
{
"alt": "改善",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "gaeseon",
"sense": "act of improving",
"word": "개선"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "podobruvanje",
"sense": "act of improving",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "подобрување"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "act of improving",
"word": "pembaikan"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "act of improving",
"word": "whakawhanaketanga"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "act of improving",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "forbedring"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "act of improving",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "forbetring"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "behbud",
"sense": "act of improving",
"word": "بهبود"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "eslâh",
"sense": "act of improving",
"word": "اصلاح"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "taraqqi",
"sense": "act of improving",
"word": "ترقی"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "act of improving",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "polepszenie"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "act of improving",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "ulepszenie"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "act of improving",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "poprawa"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "act of improving",
"word": "melhora"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "act of improving",
"word": "melhoramento"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "act of improving",
"word": "melhoria"
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{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "act of improving",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "îmbunătățire"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ulučšénije",
"sense": "act of improving",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "улучше́ние"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "usoveršénstvovanije",
"sense": "act of improving",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "усоверше́нствование"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ispravlénije",
"sense": "act of improving",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "исправле́ние"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "soveršenstvovanije",
"sense": "act of improving",
"tags": [
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"word": "совершенствование"
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{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "act of improving",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "piseach"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "act of improving",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "leasachadh"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "act of improving",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "побољша́ње"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "act of improving",
"tags": [
"Roman"
],
"word": "poboljšánje"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "act of improving",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "zlepšenie"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "act of improving",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "izboljšava"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "act of improving",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "izboljšanje"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "act of improving",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mejora"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "act of improving",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mejoramiento"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "act of improving",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "enmienda"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "act of improving",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mejoría"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "act of improving",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "förbättring"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "pokráščennja",
"sense": "act of improving",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "покра́щення"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "polípšennja",
"sense": "act of improving",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "полі́пшення"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "vdoskonálennja",
"sense": "act of improving",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "вдоскона́лення"
},
{
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"roman": "islāh",
"sense": "act of improving",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "اصلاح"
},
{
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"roman": "behtrī",
"sense": "act of improving",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "بہتری"
},
{
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"roman": "taraqqī",
"sense": "act of improving",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ترقی"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "act of improving",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "gwelliant"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "farbeserung",
"sense": "act of improving",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "פֿאַרבעסערונג"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "tikn",
"sense": "act of improving",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "תּיקון"
}
],
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}
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"links": [
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"word": "miglioramento"
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{
"word": "perfezionamento"
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}
],
"word": "improvement"
}
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