Advancement

1. v. t. Settlement on a wife, or jointure.
2. v. t. The act of advancing, or the state of being advanced; progression; improvement; furtherance; promotion to a higher place or dignity; as, the advancement of learning.
3. v. t. An advance of money or value; payment in advance. See Advance, 5.
4. v. t. Property given, usually by a parent to a child, in advance of a future distribution.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.