"improvement" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ɪmˈpɹuːvmənt/ Audio: en-us-improvement.ogg Forms: improvements [plural]
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman emprouwement. By surface analysis, improve + -ment. Etymology templates: {{der|en|xno|-}} Anglo-Norman, {{surf|en|improve|-ment}} By surface analysis, improve + -ment Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} improvement (countable and uncountable, plural improvements)
  1. The act of improving; advancement or growth; a bettering Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (act of improving): تَحْسِين (taḥsīn) [masculine] (Arabic), բարելավում (barelavum) (Armenian), hobekuntza (Basque), паляпшэ́нне (paljapšénnje) [neuter] (Belarusian), подобре́ние (podobrénie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), напре́дък (naprédǎk) [masculine] (Bulgarian), millora [feminine] (Catalan), millorament [masculine] (Catalan), 改進 (Chinese Mandarin), 改进 (gǎijìn) (Chinese Mandarin), 改善 (gǎishàn) (Chinese Mandarin), 改良 (gǎiliáng) (Chinese Mandarin), zlepšení [neuter] (Czech), forbedring [common-gender] (Danish), verbetering [feminine] (Dutch), plibonigo (Esperanto), parannus (Finnish), parantaminen (Finnish), amélioration [feminine] (French), გაუმჯობესება (gaumǯobeseba) (Georgian), Verbesserung [feminine] (German), βελτίωση (veltíosi) [feminine] (Greek), καλυτέρευση (kalytérefsi) [feminine] (Greek), הִשְׁתַּלְּמוּת (hishtalmút) [feminine] (Hebrew), שיפור (shipur) [masculine] (Hebrew), सुधार (sudhār) [masculine] (Hindi), तरक़्क़ी (taraqqī) [feminine] (Hindi), javulás (Hungarian), peningkatan (Indonesian), perbaikan (Indonesian), feabhas [masculine] (Irish), biseach (note: in health) [masculine] (Irish), miglioramento (Italian), salto di qualità [masculine] (Italian), 改善 (kaizen) (alt: かいぜん) (Japanese), 개선 (gaeseon) (alt: 改善) (Korean), подобрување (podobruvanje) [neuter] (Macedonian), pembaikan (Malay), whakawhanaketanga (Maori), forbedring [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), forbetring [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), بهبود (behbud) (Persian), اصلاح (eslâh) (Persian), ترقی (taraqqi) (Persian), polepszenie [neuter] (Polish), ulepszenie [neuter] (Polish), poprawa [feminine] (Polish), melhora (Portuguese), melhoramento (Portuguese), melhoria (Portuguese), îmbunătățire [feminine] (Romanian), улучше́ние (ulučšénije) [neuter] (Russian), усоверше́нствование (usoveršénstvovanije) [neuter] (Russian), исправле́ние (ispravlénije) [neuter] (Russian), совершенствование (soveršenstvovanije) [neuter] (Russian), piseach [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), leasachadh [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), побољша́ње [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), poboljšánje [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), zlepšenie [neuter] (Slovak), izboljšava [feminine] (Slovene), izboljšanje [neuter] (Slovene), mejora [feminine] (Spanish), mejoramiento [masculine] (Spanish), enmienda [feminine] (Spanish), mejoría [feminine] (Spanish), förbättring [common-gender] (Swedish), покра́щення (pokráščennja) [neuter] (Ukrainian), полі́пшення (polípšennja) [neuter] (Ukrainian), вдоскона́лення (vdoskonálennja) [neuter] (Ukrainian), اصلاح (islāh) [feminine] (Urdu), بہتری (behtrī) [feminine] (Urdu), ترقی (taraqqī) [feminine] (Urdu), gwelliant [masculine] (Welsh), פֿאַרבעסערונג (farbeserung) [feminine] (Yiddish), תּיקון (tikn) [masculine] (Yiddish)
    Sense id: en-improvement-en-noun-UcLhAs76 Disambiguation of 'act of improving': 79 8 3 4 4 1 1
  2. The act of making profitable use or application of anything, or the state of being profitably employed; practical application, for example of a doctrine, principle, or theory, stated in a discourse. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-improvement-en-noun-LENshHvu
  3. The state of being improved; betterment; advance Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-improvement-en-noun-SzKjhTr2 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ment, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Arabic translations, Terms with Armenian translations, Terms with Basque translations, Terms with Belarusian translations, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Esperanto translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Georgian translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Hebrew translations, Terms with Hindi translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Indonesian translations, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Korean translations, Terms with 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10 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations: 3 20 45 1 18 12 1 Disambiguation of Terms with Persian translations: 5 22 39 4 15 12 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 5 21 38 4 19 9 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 7 20 38 4 19 11 2 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 5 21 40 4 16 11 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 4 22 46 3 13 10 2 Disambiguation of Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations: 5 20 39 4 18 10 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations: 5 21 38 4 17 12 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Slovak translations: 5 22 39 4 15 12 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Slovene translations: 5 21 38 4 17 12 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 4 19 42 3 16 11 4 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 5 21 40 4 18 10 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Ukrainian translations: 5 23 41 4 16 9 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Urdu translations: 5 20 40 4 18 10 2 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  4. Something which is improved Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-improvement-en-noun-4EtJaCyy
  5. Increase; growth; progress; advance. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-improvement-en-noun-4TLdrIbb
  6. (in the plural) Valuable additions or betterments, for example buildings, clearings, drains, fences, etc., on premises. Tags: countable, in-plural, uncountable
    Sense id: en-improvement-en-noun-uWvknjI~
  7. (Patent Laws): A useful addition to, or modification of, a machine, manufacture, or composition. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-improvement-en-noun-HdKXlFzi
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: improval, amelioration, emprovement [obsolete] Hyponyms: self-improvement Derived forms: disimprovement, home improvement, Kaldor-Hicks improvement, Pareto-improvement, Pareto improvement, require improvement Related terms: uplift

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "word": "worsening"
    },
    {
      "word": "deterioration"
    },
    {
      "word": "disimprovement"
    }
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      "word": "Pareto-improvement"
    },
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    },
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      "expansion": "By surface analysis, improve + -ment",
      "name": "surf"
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  "etymology_text": "From Anglo-Norman emprouwement. By surface analysis, improve + -ment.",
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      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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  "hyphenation": [
    "im‧prove‧ment"
  ],
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  "pos": "noun",
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      "word": "uplift"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "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."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1783, Hugh Blair, Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres:",
          "text": "Exercise is the chief source of improvement in all our faculties.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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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        "The act of improving; advancement or growth; a bettering"
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      "links": [
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          "improve"
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        [
          "advance",
          "advance"
        ],
        [
          "bettering",
          "bettering"
        ]
      ],
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        "uncountable"
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          "_dis1": "79 8 3 4 4 1 1",
          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "taḥsīn",
          "sense": "act of improving",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "تَحْسِين"
        },
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          "code": "hy",
          "lang": "Armenian",
          "roman": "barelavum",
          "sense": "act of improving",
          "word": "բարելավում"
        },
        {
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          "code": "eu",
          "lang": "Basque",
          "sense": "act of improving",
          "word": "hobekuntza"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 8 3 4 4 1 1",
          "code": "be",
          "lang": "Belarusian",
          "roman": "paljapšénnje",
          "sense": "act of improving",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "паляпшэ́нне"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 8 3 4 4 1 1",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "podobrénie",
          "sense": "act of improving",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "подобре́ние"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 8 3 4 4 1 1",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "naprédǎk",
          "sense": "act of improving",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "напре́дък"
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        {
          "_dis1": "79 8 3 4 4 1 1",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "act of improving",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "millora"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 8 3 4 4 1 1",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "act of improving",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "millorament"
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        {
          "_dis1": "79 8 3 4 4 1 1",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "act of improving",
          "word": "改進"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 8 3 4 4 1 1",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "gǎijìn",
          "sense": "act of improving",
          "word": "改进"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 8 3 4 4 1 1",
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          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "gǎishàn",
          "sense": "act of improving",
          "word": "改善"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 8 3 4 4 1 1",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "gǎiliáng",
          "sense": "act of improving",
          "word": "改良"
        },
        {
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          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "act of improving",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
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          "word": "zlepšení"
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          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "act of improving",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "forbedring"
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          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "act of improving",
          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "verbetering"
        },
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          "_dis1": "79 8 3 4 4 1 1",
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "act of improving",
          "word": "plibonigo"
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          "_dis1": "79 8 3 4 4 1 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "act of improving",
          "word": "parannus"
        },
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          "_dis1": "79 8 3 4 4 1 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "act of improving",
          "word": "parantaminen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 8 3 4 4 1 1",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "act of improving",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "amélioration"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 8 3 4 4 1 1",
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "gaumǯobeseba",
          "sense": "act of improving",
          "word": "გაუმჯობესება"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 8 3 4 4 1 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "act of improving",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Verbesserung"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 8 3 4 4 1 1",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "veltíosi",
          "sense": "act of improving",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "βελτίωση"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 8 3 4 4 1 1",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "kalytérefsi",
          "sense": "act of improving",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "καλυτέρευση"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 8 3 4 4 1 1",
          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "roman": "hishtalmút",
          "sense": "act of improving",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "הִשְׁתַּלְּמוּת"
        },
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          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "roman": "shipur",
          "sense": "act of improving",
          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "שיפור"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 8 3 4 4 1 1",
          "code": "hi",
          "lang": "Hindi",
          "roman": "sudhār",
          "sense": "act of improving",
          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "सुधार"
        },
        {
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          "code": "hi",
          "lang": "Hindi",
          "roman": "taraqqī",
          "sense": "act of improving",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "तरक़्क़ी"
        },
        {
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          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "act of improving",
          "word": "javulás"
        },
        {
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          "code": "id",
          "lang": "Indonesian",
          "sense": "act of improving",
          "word": "peningkatan"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 8 3 4 4 1 1",
          "code": "id",
          "lang": "Indonesian",
          "sense": "act of improving",
          "word": "perbaikan"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 8 3 4 4 1 1",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "act of improving",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "feabhas"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 8 3 4 4 1 1",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "note": "in health",
          "sense": "act of improving",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "biseach"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 8 3 4 4 1 1",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "act of improving",
          "word": "miglioramento"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 8 3 4 4 1 1",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "act of improving",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "salto di qualità"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 8 3 4 4 1 1",
          "alt": "かいぜん",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "kaizen",
          "sense": "act of improving",
          "word": "改善"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 8 3 4 4 1 1",
          "alt": "改善",
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "gaeseon",
          "sense": "act of improving",
          "word": "개선"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 8 3 4 4 1 1",
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "podobruvanje",
          "sense": "act of improving",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "подобрување"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 8 3 4 4 1 1",
          "code": "ms",
          "lang": "Malay",
          "sense": "act of improving",
          "word": "pembaikan"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 8 3 4 4 1 1",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "act of improving",
          "word": "whakawhanaketanga"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 8 3 4 4 1 1",
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "act of improving",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "forbedring"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 8 3 4 4 1 1",
          "code": "nn",
          "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
          "sense": "act of improving",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "forbetring"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 8 3 4 4 1 1",
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "behbud",
          "sense": "act of improving",
          "word": "بهبود"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 8 3 4 4 1 1",
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "eslâh",
          "sense": "act of improving",
          "word": "اصلاح"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 8 3 4 4 1 1",
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "taraqqi",
          "sense": "act of improving",
          "word": "ترقی"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 8 3 4 4 1 1",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "act of improving",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "polepszenie"
        },
        {
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      "code": "ka",
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      "code": "es",
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      "word": "enmienda"
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      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "act of improving",
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      "word": "покра́щення"
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      "code": "uk",
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      "code": "ur",
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      "roman": "islāh",
      "sense": "act of improving",
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      "roman": "farbeserung",
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