<adj.all> gave advance warning was beforehand with her report
situated ahead or going before
<adj.all> an advance party at that time the most advanced outpost was still east of the Rockies
Advance \Ad*vance"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Advanced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Advancing}(#).] [OE. avancen, avauncen, F. avancer, fr. a supposed LL. abantiare; ab + ante (F. avant) before. The spelling with d was a mistake, a- being supposed to be fr. L. ad. See {Avaunt}.] 1. To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.
2. To raise; to elevate. [Archaic]
They . . . advanced their eyelids. --Shak.
3. To raise to a higher rank; to promote.
Ahasueres . . . advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes. --Esther iii. 1.
4. To accelerate the growth or progress; to further; to forward; to help on; to aid; to heighten; as, to advance the ripening of fruit; to advance one's interests.
5. To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show; as, to advance an argument.
Some ne'er advance a judgment of their own. --Pope.
6. To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten.
7. To furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due, or in aid of an enterprise; to supply beforehand; as, a merchant advances money on a contract or on goods consigned to him.
8. To raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate; as, to advance the price of goods.
Advance \Ad*vance"\, a. Before in place, or beforehand in time; -- used for advanced; as, an advance guard, or that before the main guard or body of an army; advance payment, or that made before it is due; advance proofs, advance sheets, pages of a forthcoming volume, received in advance of the time of publication.
Advance \Ad*vance"\, v. i. 1. To move or go forward; to proceed; as, he advanced to greet me.
2. To increase or make progress in any respect; as, to advance in knowledge, in stature, in years, in price.
3. To rise in rank, office, or consequence; to be preferred or promoted.
Advanced to a level with ancient peers. --Prescott.
Advance \Ad*vance"\, n. [Cf. F. avance, fr. avancer. See {Advance}, v.] 1. The act of advancing or moving forward or upward; progress.
2. Improvement or progression, physically, mentally, morally, or socially; as, an advance in health, knowledge, or religion; an advance in rank or office.
3. An addition to the price; rise in price or value; as, an advance on the prime cost of goods.
4. The first step towards the attainment of a result; approach made to gain favor, to form an acquaintance, to adjust a difference, etc.; an overture; a tender; an offer; -- usually in the plural.
[He] made the like advances to the dissenters. --Swift.
5. A furnishing of something before an equivalent is received (as money or goods), towards a capital or stock, or on loan; payment beforehand; the money or goods thus furnished; money or value supplied beforehand.
I shall, with pleasure, make the necessary advances. --Jay.
The account was made up with intent to show what advances had been made. --Kent.
{In advance} (a) In front; before. (b) Beforehand; before an equivalent is received. (c) In the state of having advanced money on account; as, A is in advance to B a thousand dollars or pounds.
Lawmakers say the aim is to increase voter turnout and open the nation's elections to Americans unable to leave work and stand in line at City Hall or merely too forgetful to register 30 days in advance as required in some states.
It would raise MaxSaver fares $10 each way and increase the advance purchase requirement to 30 days from seven days, but would lower the cancellation penalty to 50% from 100%.
In May I proposed that both houses of Congress, both sides of the aisle, join together with our administration in a bipartisan executive-legislative task force to advance America's unified anti-drug policy.
This practice is known in the industry as 'skin-to-skin' working. The report said the roof fall was caused by rock movement 'probably' triggered by 'the relatively high rate of advance of the working in the roadway'.
Mr Molyneaux, briefed in advance of the revelation, appeared ready to reserve judgment. But trust - or rather the absence of it - has always been the deciding factor in efforts to restore peace to Northern Ireland.
The bank will announce the timing of the auction and type of issue to be offered four weeks in advance.
Such is the demand for major artists that musical events are often planned a year or two in advance.
We quickly consigned an insurance salesman from Florida to be our "advance man," since he seemed most fit and least likely to lose the boards in the drink as we experimented with different, jerry-rigged configurations.
Analysts said the stock market would not make a healthy advance until volume increases.
"If we're ever going to advance the sport, we've got to stop acting like criminals," he says.
All of the comments came in advance of a Fort Worth Star-Telegram poll, released late Tuesday night, that showed Williams with a 45-41 percent lead in a survey that has a 3 percent margin of error.
Systemwide, the Miami-based carrier also has added new restrictions to its cheapest ticket requiring seven-day advance purchases.
The 0.42 rise in the Nasdaq Composite Index to 385.01 was the third consecutive advance and the seventh this month.
The expected decision to renew Beijing's most-favored-nation status drew advance criticism from Democrats.
A Boston company and seven men were indicted on federal fraud charges in connection with a scheme to collect "advance fees" from borrowers seeking loans that were never provided.
His early travels and appointments were set without advance word to Democrats from the state involved.
No other society in history has done as much to advance a repressed racial minority.
If the agreement doesn't receive court approval, the company said it may be required to repay this advance under terms and conditions to be negotiated at a later date.
Some analysts are skeptical that Texas Air will keep the MaxSaver fare in its current form because its relatively lenient two-day advance purchase requirement makes it available to almost everybody except businessmen traveling on short notice.
More than a half dozen tornadoes accompanying the hurricane hit the Brownsville area today in advance of the center of the storm, blowing over at least two homes and injuring one person, a boy who suffered a minor head wound.
But he said he expects the current advance to continue and to move stocks close to the upper end of the trading range that has prevailed since last October's market crash.
But the show is nonetheless the summer's hottest ticket, with a record advance sale for a nonmusical of over 1.5 million pounds ($2.35 million), and a top ticket price of 17 pounds 50 ($27.50), steep by London standards.
As in Grenada, the insurgents have shown a willingness to use extremist methods to advance their cause.
Holding enough votes this time to override a veto, Democrats are forcing a second election-year showdown with President Reagan over giving workers advance notice of plant closings and large layoffs.
Traders also attributed the market's advance yesterday to widespread rumors that the Federal Reserve was buying long-term bonds yesterday in an effort to bring down long-term interest rates.
The stock market overcame an early round of profit-taking to record a solid advance in response to better-than-expected news on the July trade deficit.
But activity overall was relatively subdued as worries about rising interest rates tended to restrain the advance.
The news helped to support yesterday's price advance. According to GNI, the fall in Brazilian output will leave consumer stocks at the end of this season 25 per cent below the 1990-91 peak of 19.7m bags.
Other participants could foresee the impact of the sell orders, placed well in advance of the close, resulting in a last-minute sell-off by the broader market, one domestic broker said.
The advance continued Thursday in the Far East and Europe, but later ran out of steam in New York, as a modicum of bearish dollar sentiment returned.