advancing
推进,推进工作,推动,推动工作
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ad·vanced, ad·vanc·ing.
- : to move or bring forward: The general advanced his troops to the new position.
- : to bring into consideration or notice; suggest; propose: to advance reasons for a tax cut.
- : to improve; further: to advance one's interests.
- : to raise in rank; promote: The board of directors advanced him to president.
- : to raise in rate or amount; increase: to advance the price.
- : to bring forward in time; accelerate: to advance growth; to advance clocks one hour.
- : to supply beforehand; furnish on credit or before goods are delivered or work is done.
- : to furnish as part of a stock or fund.
- : to supply or pay in expectation of reimbursement: They advanced her $5000 against future royalties.
- : to schedule at a later time or date: to advance a meeting from early to late fall.
- : Informal. to do advance publicity for: to advance a rock singer's personal appearances; the most heavily advanced sports event in history.
- : Archaic. to raise, as a banner.
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ad·vanced, ad·vanc·ing.
- : to move or go forward; proceed: The troops advanced.
- : to increase in quantity, value, price, etc.: His stock advanced three points.
- : to move toward or be perceived as moving toward an observer, especially as giving the illusion of space.Compare recede.
- : to improve or make progress.
- : to grow or rise in importance, status, etc.: to advance in rank.
- : Informal. to provide publicity; do promotion: He was hired to advance for a best-selling author.
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- : a forward movement; progress in space: the advance of the troops to the border.
- : promotion; improvement in importance, rank, etc.: his advance to the position of treasurer.
- : Usually advances. attempts at forming an acquaintanceship, reaching an agreement, or the like, made by one party.actions or words intended to be sexually inviting.
- : addition to price; rise in price: an advance on cottons.
- : Commerce. a giving beforehand; a furnishing of something before an equivalent is received: An advance on his next month's salary permitted him to pay his debt on time.the money or goods thus furnished: He received $100 as an advance against future delivery.
- : Journalism. copy prepared before the event it describes has occurred: The morning papers carried advances on the ceremony, which will take place tonight.a press release, wire-service dispatch, or the like, as one containing the text or partial text of a speech, sent to arrive in advance of the event to which it is related.Compare release copy.
- : the leading body of an army.
- : Military. the order or a signal to advance.
- : Informal. publicity done before the appearance of a noted person, a public event, etc.: She was hired to do advance for the candidate.a person hired to do advance publicity for an event: He is regarded as the best advance in the business.
- : Automotive, Machinery. an adjustment made in the setting of the distributor of an internal-combustion engine to generate the spark for ignition in each cylinder earlier in the cycle.Compare retard.
- : Geology. a seaward movement of the shoreline.
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- : going or placed before: an advance section of a train.
- : made or given ahead of time: an advance payment on a loan.
- : issued ahead of time: an advance copy of the president's speech.
- : having gone beyond others or beyond the average.
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“We can help address the widespread inequities in our communities by providing students with the resources they need for future employment and advancing economic mobility,” said Sabina Kelly, Greater Maryland market president for Bank of America.
The first round of baking the pumpkins can be done up to three days in advance.
This winter, reservations will be required—book a month in advance if you can, as spots will fill up quickly.
Along with Stephen Curry and Draymond Green, Thompson is a part of Golden State’s homegrown core that won three championships and advanced to five straight Finals from 2015 to 2019.
The zoo has reduced capacity by 33 percent, and guests must purchase the $35 tickets in advance online.
There is a sense of grandeur in the idea that paying heavily is a means of advancing knowledge.
Meanwhile, thousands of refugees were pushed into Kisangani by the advancing rebels.
But it stops short of advancing economic redress and opportunity.
With women being blocked in these ways from advancing in their careers, no wonder inequality persists.
One theory holds that Gedi was deserted to avoid the advancing nomadic Galla tribe coming from Somalia.
Hunter-Weston despite his heavy losses will be advancing to-morrow which should divert pressure from you.
He was still at breakfast, and advancing slowly in the meal, like a gentleman whose breakfast was his greatest care in life.
We spurred across the plain to the mouth of a deep, wooded defile, through which the Prussian grand corps d'armée were advancing.
As it was he had to press Nejdi into a fast gallop before he could clear the left wing of the advancing army.
The pock-marked ridges in the distance are covered with the advancing waves of field-grey forms.