English Dictionary

advance

/ədˈvɑːns/

noun

A forward move; improvement or progression. / An amount of money or credit, especially given as a loan, or paid before it is due; an advancement. / An addition to the price; rise in price or value.

The advance of technology has revolutionized many industries.

意味（1）

A forward move; improvement or progression.

an advance in health or knowledge

意味（2）

An amount of money or credit, especially given as a loan, or paid before it is due; an advancement.

Could he ask the cashier privately for an advance? No, the cashier was no good, no damn good: he wouldn't give an advance.

意味（3）

An addition to the price; rise in price or value.

an advance on the prime cost of goods

意味（4）

(in the plural) An opening approach or overture, now especially of an unwelcome or sexual nature.

For, if it were of any use to recall matters of fact, what is more notorious, than that prince's applying himself first to the church of England? and upon their refusal to fall in with his measures, making the like advances to the dissenters of all kinds, who readily and almost universally complied with him