Associations to the word «Betterment»

Wiktionary

BETTERMENT, noun. An improvement.
BETTERMENT, noun. (legal) An improvement to a property that adds to its value.

Dictionary definition

BETTERMENT, noun. A change for the better; progress in development.
BETTERMENT, noun. An improvement that adds to the value of a property or facility.
BETTERMENT, noun. The act of relieving ills and changing for the better.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope