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advance en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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  • /ədˈvɐːns/ (Australia)
  • /ədˈvɐːns/ (Australia, New-Zealand, South)
  • [ədˈvɛəns] (Canada, General-American)
  • /ədˈvæns/ (Australia)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ədˈvɑːns/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ədˈvans/ (Northern-England, Scotland)
  • /ədˈvæns/ (Canada, General-American)
  • [ədˈvɛənts] (Canada, General-American)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó Proto-Italic *ap Latin ab Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti Proto-Italic *anti Latin ante Latin ab ante Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -āre Vulgar Latin *abanteāre Old French avancierbor. Middle English avauncen English advance From Middle English avauncen, avancen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman avauncier, from Vulgar Latin *abanteāre, from Late Latin ab ante, from Latin ab + ante (“before”). ⟨d⟩ added in analogy to Latin ad- (cf. Middle French advancer). Compare avaunt.

Meanings

  1. Completed before necessary or a milestone event.
    • He made an advance payment on the prior shipment to show good faith.
    • In general, if you are applying for adjustment of status (a Green Card) and leave the United States without the appropriate travel documentation (for example, an advance parole document), you may not be allowed to reenter the United States when you return. 2024 January 15, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), “Green Card”, in USCIS, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, retrieved 24 Jan 2025, Travel Documents:
  2. Preceding.
    • The advance man came a month before the candidate.
  3. Forward.
    • The scouts found a site for an advance base.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
more advance Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most advance Degree=Sup lexicographic
advaunce alternative, obsolete lexicographic

Deriveds

advance copy · advance payment · advance directive · advance-guard · advance fee fraud · advance angle · advance man · advance fee scam · advance woman · advance guard · advance person

Translations (5)

cmn 預先的 /预先的 (completed before necessary or a milestone event) · hu előzetes (completed before necessary or a milestone event) · hu megelőlegezett (completed before necessary or a milestone event) · cmn 提前的 (completed before necessary or a milestone event) · hu előreküldött (preceding)

advance en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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  • /ədˈvɐːns/ (Australia)
  • /ədˈvɐːns/ (Australia, New-Zealand, South)
  • [ədˈvɛəns] (Canada, General-American)
  • /ədˈvæns/ (Australia)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ədˈvɑːns/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ədˈvans/ (Northern-England, Scotland)
  • /ədˈvæns/ (Canada, General-American)
  • [ədˈvɛənts] (Canada, General-American)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó Proto-Italic *ap Latin ab Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti Proto-Italic *anti Latin ante Latin ab ante Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -āre Vulgar Latin *abanteāre Old French avancierbor. Middle English avauncen English advance From Middle English avauncen, avancen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman avauncier, from Vulgar Latin *abanteāre, from Late Latin ab ante, from Latin ab + ante (“before”). ⟨d⟩ added in analogy to Latin ad- (cf. Middle French advancer). Compare avaunt.

Meanings

  1. A forward move; improvement or progression.
    • an advance in health or knowledge
    • an advance in rank or office
  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. 1904–1907 (date written), James Joyce, “Counterparts”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, published June 1914, →OCLC, page 109:
    • I shall, with pleasure, make the necessary advances. 1780, John Jay, letter dated November 21:
  3. An addition to the price; rise in price or value.
    • an advance on the prime cost of goods
  4. (in-plural, often) An opening approach or overture, now especially of an unwelcome or sexual nature.
    • [A]nd Rosamund though quite a genteelly brought up young lady had responded to his advances by slapping his face. 1945, Tom Ronan, Strangers on the Ophir, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 59:
    • In public he put on a performance that was at once outraged and outrageous, but usually he did not carry grudges into his private life. Exuding the backslapping air of a socializer who loved to gamble and drink, he could not understand why people whose careers he had ruined and publicly ridiculed would be hostile to his friendly advances. 1983 August 13, John Kyper, “Flamboyant Inquisitor”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 5, page 14:
    • And so saying he scampered off to the hill, to the amusement of honest Plat; and it is likely lost no time in making his advances to the young widow. 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 198:
    • As the sun fell, so did our spirits. I had tried to make advances to the girl again; but she would have none of me, and so I was not only thirsty but otherwise sad and downhearted. 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IV, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
    • I felt vaguely he was a sneak, and remained quite unmollified by advances on his side, which, in a boy's barbarous fashion, unless it suited me to be magnanimous, I haughtily ignored. 1923, Walter de la Mare, Seaton's Aunt:
    • 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 1708, Jonathan Swift, The Sentiments of a Church of England Man with Respect to Religion and Government:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
advances Number=Plur lexicographic
advaunce alternative, obsolete lexicographic

Antonyms

regress (antonym(s) of “forward move”) · regression (antonym(s) of “forward move”)

Deriveds

readvance · black advance · in advance of · counteradvance · in advance · cash advance

Translations (105)

da forskudsbetaling (amount of money) · pl awans (amount of money) · nn framrykking (forward move) · ca progrés (forward move) · sh predújam (amount of money) · sq përparim (forward move) · et eel- (forward move) · da åbning (opening approach) · ca bestreta (amount of money) · es coqueteo (opening approach) · ru ава́нс (amount of money) · hu előrelépés (forward move) · nb fremrykning (forward move) · pt avanço (forward move) · de Vorschuss (amount of money) · uk наступа́ти (forward move) · uk просува́ння упере́д (forward move) · da nærmende (opening approach) · ru продвиже́ние (forward move) · cmn 預付款 /预付款 (amount of money) · es avance (forward move) · pl zaliczka (amount of money) · de Anzahlung (amount of money) · nl vooruitbetaling (amount of money) · pt progresso (forward move) · it avanzata (forward move) · sv närmande (opening approach) · es adelanto (amount of money) · cs postup (forward move) · bg заем (amount of money) · sq avancim (forward move) · es flirteo (opening approach) · sh преду́јам (amount of money) · hu előrenyomulás (forward move) · fr avancée (forward move) · fi lähestyminen (opening approach) · pl awanse (opening approach) · sv förskott (amount of money) · hu haladás (forward move) · fi iskuyritys (opening approach) · bg напредък (forward move) · uk по́зика (amount of money) · nb forskudd (amount of money) · mt avanzatt (forward move) · ru заём (amount of money) · hu (szexuális) közeledés (opening approach) · cs záloha (amount of money) · ga airleacan (amount of money) · hu kikezdés (opening approach) · fi eteneminen (forward move) · mi kokenga (forward move) · hu előrehaladás (forward move) · zu imvula (amount of money) · ru ссу́да (amount of money) · fi ennakko (amount of money) · pt adiantamento (amount of money) · bg предплащане (amount of money) · it progresso (forward move) · uk по́зичка (amount of money) · ja 進歩 (forward move) · de Fortschritt (forward move) · fr avances (opening approach) · es progreso (forward move) · fi ennakkomaksu (amount of money) · da prisforhøjelse (rise in price) · fr avance (amount of money) · uk ава́нс (amount of money) · fr souscription (amount of money) · az avans (amount of money) · fi laina (amount of money) · hu előmenetel (forward move) · sq avancë (amount of money) · nl voorschot (amount of money) · tr öndelik (amount of money) · et ettemaks (amount of money) · fr progression (forward move) · hu áremelkedés (rise in price) · nn forskot (amount of money) · es avance (amount of money) · ga ionsaí (forward move) · sh аконта́ција (amount of money) · bg аванс (amount of money) · es insinuación (opening approach) · bg предплата (amount of money) · sh akontácija (amount of money) · nl avance (opening approach) · az beh (amount of money) · da forskud (amount of money) · nl vooruitgang (forward move) · et avanss (amount of money) · eo amindumo (opening approach) · mt avanza (amount of money) · da fremrykning (forward move) · he הִתְקַדְּמוּת (forward move) · hu fejlődés (forward move) · cy blaenswm (amount of money) · cy benthyciad (amount of money) · fi edistysaskel (forward move) · it avanzo (amount of money) · sv öppning (opening approach) · fi hinnankorotus (rise in price) · yi אַוואַנס (amount of money) · ja 前進 (forward move) · fr progrès (forward move) · hu előleg (amount of money)

advance en · VERB

Pronunciation

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  • (Australia) audio
  • /ədˈvɐːns/ (Australia)
  • /ədˈvɐːns/ (Australia, New-Zealand, South)
  • [ədˈvɛəns] (Canada, General-American)
  • /ədˈvæns/ (Australia)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ədˈvɑːns/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ədˈvans/ (Northern-England, Scotland)
  • /ədˈvæns/ (Canada, General-American)
  • [ədˈvɛənts] (Canada, General-American)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó Proto-Italic *ap Latin ab Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti Proto-Italic *anti Latin ante Latin ab ante Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -āre Vulgar Latin *abanteāre Old French avancierbor. Middle English avauncen English advance From Middle English avauncen, avancen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman avauncier, from Vulgar Latin *abanteāre, from Late Latin ab ante, from Latin ab + ante (“before”). ⟨d⟩ added in analogy to Latin ad- (cf. Middle French advancer). Compare avaunt.

Meanings

  1. To promote or advantage. ▸ To help the progress of (something); to further.
    • Some see it as in effect the end of the Syrian uprising that began with peaceful protests against Assad’s police state in 2011, with opposition fighters working to advance Turkey’s interests at the expense of the revolution’s goals. 2018 January 26, Kareem Shaheen, The Guardian:
  2. To promote or advantage. ▸ To raise (someone) in rank or office; to prefer, to promote.
    • This, however, was in time evaded by the monarchs, who advanced certain of their own retainers to a level with the ancient peers of the land[…] 1838, William H[ickling] Prescott, History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: American Stationers’ Company; John B. Russell, →OCLC:
    • After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes that were with him. 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Esther 3:1:
  3. To move forward in space or time. ▸ To move or push (something) forwards, especially forcefully.
    • Whence and what art thou, execrable shape, / That dar'st, though grim and terrible, advance / Thy miscreated front athwart my way / To yonder gates? 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
  4. To move forward in space or time. ▸ To make (something) happen at an earlier time or date; to bring forward, to hasten.
    • [S]in and sorrow it were, considering the hardships of this noble and gallant knight, no whit mentioning or weighing those we ourselves have endured, if we were now either to advance or retard the hour of refection beyond the time when the viands are fit to be set before us. 1820 March, [Walter Scott], chapter III, in The Monastery. A Romance. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Co., and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 95:
  5. (intransitive) To move forward in space or time. ▸ To move forwards; to approach.
    • I advanced towards him step by step, stopping sometimes for fear of waking him. 1829, Marchioness of Lemington, Rosina, or the Virtuous Country Maid, Ninth ed.
    • This army recaptured Wu-chʻang, on the right bank of the Yangtze, in 1854, reached Chen-chiang four years later, advanced to Chiu-chiang and threatened Nanking. 2003, C.J. Shane, editor, China (The History of Nations), Greenhaven Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 67:
  6. To move forward in space or time. ▸ To provide (money or other value) before it is due, or in expectation of some work; to lend.
    • “I had intended to ask you to advance me a hundred pounds,” said Phineas. 1869, Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn:
    • On the urgent representations of several parties of the first importance in the City of London, the bank advanced 120,000l. to the Governor and Company of the Copper Miners […]. 1871, James William Gilbart, The Principles and Practice of Banking:
  7. To move forward in space or time. ▸ To put forward (an idea, argument etc.); to propose.
    • Ghosts, it is advanced, either do not exist at all, or else, like the stars at noonday, they are there all the time and it is we who cannot see them. The stories in the following pages were written on the second of these assumptions. 1935, Oliver Onions, “Credo”, in The Collected Ghost Stories:
    • Some ne'er advance a Judgement of their own, / But catch the spreading notion of the Town […]. 1711 May, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: […] W[illiam] Lewis […]; and sold by W[illiam] Taylor […], T[homas] Osborn[e] […], and J[ohn] Graves […], →OCLC:
  8. (intransitive) To move forward in space or time. ▸ To make progress; to do well, to succeed.
    • Earlier the caller said men were more likely to be in senior positions. Clegg says that's partly because the current maternity leave arrangements make it difficult for women to advance in the workplace. 2014 April 24, Andrew Sparrow, The Guardian:
  9. (intransitive) To move forward in space or time. ▸ To move forward in time; to progress towards completion.
    • I can promise you that you will feel even less humorous as the evening advances. 1927, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes:
  10. (archaic, transitive) To raise, be raised. ▸ To raise; to lift or elevate.
    • The fringed Curtaines of thine eyes aduance. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
  11. To raise, be raised. ▸ To raise or increase (a price, rate).
    • In February last […] bakers advanced the price of bread sold over the counter in London from 8d. to 8½d. per quartern loaf. 1924 July 16, The Times:
  12. To raise, be raised. ▸ To increase (a number or amount).
  13. (intransitive) To raise, be raised. ▸ To make a higher bid at an auction.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
advances Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
advancing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
advaunce alternative, obsolete lexicographic
advanced Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
advanced Tense=Past lexicographic

Antonyms

retract · regress · retreat

Deriveds

advance the ball · readvance · advanceable · advancingly · unadvancing · advancive · advancement

Synonyms

advance · allege · aggrandize · ennoble · promote · prefer · elevate · improve · heighten · adduce · accelerate · exalt · nobilitate · exalt · dignify · raise · elevate · assign · honor · uplift · raise

Translations (193)

ja 進展する (to accelerate the growth or progress; to further; to forward) · ang wadan (to move forwards, to approach) · tr ilerlemek (to accelerate the growth or progress; to further; to forward) · mi paneke (to move or push forward) · bg аванс (to furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due) · cho achakʋlichi (to move forwards, to approach) · bg развивам (to accelerate the growth or progress; to further; to forward) · fi esittää (to bring to view or notice; to offer or propose) · fi kiihdyttää (to accelerate the growth or progress; to further; to forward) · de vorantreiben (to move or push forward) · az irəlilətmək (to move or push forward) · pl zaawansować (to furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due) · az irəliləmək (to move forwards, to approach) · uk авансува́ти (to furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due) · ro avansa (to move forwards, to approach) · sq përparoj (to raise to a higher rank; to promote) · tl sumulong (to accelerate the growth or progress; to further; to forward) · az vəzifəsini yüksəltmək (to raise to a higher rank; to promote) · it migliorare (to raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate) · da fortfremme (to raise to a higher rank; to promote) · et edendama (to raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate) · hi बयाना देना (to furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due) · az irəli çəkmək (to move or push forward) · ru разви́ть (to accelerate the growth or progress; to further; to forward) · sq përparoj (to move or push forward) · it avanzare (to bring to view or notice; to offer or propose) · ja 前進する (to raise to a higher rank; to promote) · bg предплащам (to furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due) · ru повыша́ть (to raise to a higher rank; to promote) · bg предлагам (to bring to view or notice; to offer or propose) · ru аванси́ровать (to furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due) · pt adiantar (to furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due) · mi whakapiki (to raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate) · hu elősegít (to accelerate the growth or progress; to further; to forward) · hu kifejt (to bring to view or notice; to offer or propose) · ru продвига́ть (to move or push forward) · it anticipare (to move or push forward) · bg повишавам (to raise to a higher rank; to promote) · yi אַװאַנסירן (to move forwards, to approach) · pt avançar (to raise to a higher rank; to promote) · kea avansá (to move or push forward) · sq përparoj (to move forwards, to approach) · hu előlép (to move forwards, to approach) · hu előleget ad (to furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due) · fi edistää (to accelerate the growth or progress; to further; to forward) · tr terfi etmek (to raise to a higher rank; to promote) · et täiustama (to raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate) · hi क़रीब आना (to move forwards, to approach) · da fremme (to accelerate the growth or progress; to further; to forward) · da fremme (to move or push forward) · bg авансирам (to furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due) · pl postąpić (to accelerate the growth or progress; to further; to forward) · ru продвига́ться (to move forwards, to approach) · fi antaa ennakkoa (to furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due) · eo akceli (to accelerate the growth or progress; to further; to forward) · sv förskottera (to furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due) · gl avanzar (to raise to a higher rank; to promote) · az rütbəcə yüksəltmək (to raise to a higher rank; to promote) · ru повыша́ть (to raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate) · pl zaawansować (to raise to a higher rank; to promote) · eo antaŭeniri (to move forwards, to approach) · izh eetä (to move forwards, to approach) · fr élever (to raise to a higher rank; to promote) · eo antaŭenpuŝi (to accelerate the growth or progress; to further; to forward) · sdn avantzà (to move or push forward) · it anticipare (to make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten) · or ବହିନା ଦେବା (to furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due) · hu előad (to bring to view or notice; to offer or propose) · ckb پێشکەوتن (to move or push forward) · hi पास आना (to move forwards, to approach) · tl sumulong (to move forwards, to approach) · cmn 推進 /推进 (to move forwards, to approach) · nl vervroegen (to make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten) · eo antaŭenmovi (to accelerate the growth or progress; to further; to forward) · eo plialtigi (to raise to a higher rank; to promote) · ru повы́сить (to raise to a higher rank; to promote) · hu előterjeszt (to bring to view or notice; to offer or propose) · mwl abançar (to move or push forward) · la prōcēdō (to move forwards, to approach) · mi whakapiki (to move or push forward) · fr avancer (to move or push forward) · fi ylentää (to raise to a higher rank; to promote) · ckb پێشکەوتن (to raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate) · ckb پێشخستن (to make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten) · az qabağa çəkmək (to raise to a higher rank; to promote) · ca anticipar (to move or push forward) · ru продви́нуться (to move forwards, to approach) · eo antaŭenmovi (to move or push forward) · nl voorschieten (to furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due) · gl adiantar (to move forwards, to approach) · la probito (to move or push forward) · gl avantar (to move or push forward) · mi koke (to move forwards, to approach) · sq paraprij (to move or push forward) · ga ionsaigh (to move forwards, to approach) · ja 進む (to move forwards, to approach) · fi maksaa ennakkoa (to furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due) · de erheben (to raise to a higher rank; to promote) · ca avançar (to move or push forward) · eo akceli (to make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten) · sc sobrai (to move or push forward) · it avanzare (to move or push forward) · hu megelőlegez (to furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due) · nl benaderen (to move forwards, to approach) · sv avancera (to move forwards, to approach) · uk просува́тися (to move forwards, to approach) · mi whakapiki (to raise to a higher rank; to promote) · pl awansować (to raise to a higher rank; to promote) · da avancere (to raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate) · gl avanzar (to move forwards, to approach) · ru продви́нуть (to move or push forward) · fi korottaa (to raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate) · uk прогресува́ти (to accelerate the growth or progress; to further; to forward) · fi aikaistaa (to make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten) · ca progressar (to accelerate the growth or progress; to further; to forward) · az qabağa çəkmək (to move or push forward) · ru развива́ть (to accelerate the growth or progress; to further; to forward) · tr ilerletmek (to move or push forward) · ckb پێشکەوتن (to raise to a higher rank; to promote) · hu előrehoz (to make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten) · ia avantiar (to move or push forward) · da avancere (to move forwards, to approach) · sc sobrare (to move or push forward) · hu előmozdít (to accelerate the growth or progress; to further; to forward) · fi edetä (to move forwards, to approach) · az çəkmək (to move or push forward) · ja 前進する (to move or push forward) · hu előrelép (to move forwards, to approach) · da haste (to make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten) · ja 進展する (to raise to a higher rank; to promote) · tl sumulong (to move or push forward) · fi lähestyä (to move forwards, to approach) · eo antaŭenpuŝi (to move or push forward) · kea avansa (to move or push forward) · it approcciarsi (to move forwards, to approach) · mi katete (to move forwards, to approach) · yue 提前 (to make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten) · ca avançar (to move forwards, to approach) · grc ἐπάγω (to move or push forward) · mi kauneke (to move forwards, to approach) · de befördern (to raise to a higher rank; to promote) · hu emelkedik (to raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate) · gl adiantar (to make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten) · pt progredir (to accelerate the growth or progress; to further; to forward) · mi whakawhanake (to accelerate the growth or progress; to further; to forward) · fr anticiper (to move or push forward) · uk просу́нути (to move or push forward) · fi antaa ylennys (to raise to a higher rank; to promote) · az qaldırmaq (to raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate) · gl avanzar (to move or push forward) · hu előrevisz (to move or push forward) · sq avancoj (to move forwards, to approach) · eo antaŭenigi (to accelerate the growth or progress; to further; to forward) · hu előretol (to move or push forward) · nl optrekken (to move forwards, to approach) · sv avancera (to raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate) · tr ilerlemek (to move forwards, to approach) · sc sobbrai (to move or push forward) · ru повы́сить (to raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate) · it progredire (to accelerate the growth or progress; to further; to forward) · sdc abantzà (to move or push forward) · ia avantiar (to raise to a higher rank; to promote) · pt avançar (to move forwards, to approach) · az yüksəltmək (to raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate) · la prodeo (to move or push forward) · de vorrücken (to move forwards, to approach) · es avanzar (to move or push forward) · fr avancer (to move forwards, to approach) · sc avvantzare (to move or push forward) · ro avansa (to move or push forward) · hu előléptet (to raise to a higher rank; to promote) · fi siirtää eteenpäin (to move or push forward) · gl avantar (to move forwards, to approach) · hu odalép (to move forwards, to approach) · da forskyde (to furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due) · uk просу́нутися (to move forwards, to approach) · az qabağa çəkmək (to make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten) · eo antaŭeniĝi (to move forwards, to approach) · ar يقرب (to move forwards, to approach) · de erhöhen (to raise to a higher rank; to promote) · sc avvantzare (to move or push forward) · eo antaŭenigi (to move or push forward) · mi koke (to move or push forward) · it avanzare (to move forwards, to approach) · sq përshpejtoj (to accelerate the growth or progress; to further; to forward) · uk просува́ти (to move or push forward) · mwl abançar (to move forwards, to approach) · pt avançar (to move or push forward) · bg напредвам (to move or push forward) · it avanzare (to raise to a higher rank; to promote) · it avvicinarsi (to move forwards, to approach) · uk розвива́ти (to accelerate the growth or progress; to further; to forward) · pl postąpić (to move or push forward)