English Dictionary

advance

IPA（発音記号）

/ədˈvɑːns/

名詞

複数形

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.

日本語の意味

前進、進歩、もしくは改善・発展の動き / 前払い金、融資またはクレジットとして提供される資金、または昇進・発展を意味する金銭的な前渡し / 価格への加算分、すなわち価格や価値の上昇を意味する追加料金

The engineers celebrated each technical advance as a step closer to sustainable energy.

エンジニアたちは、技術の前進のたびに持続可能なエネルギーに一歩近づいたことを喜んだ。

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

advances （ plural ）