3. suggest, propose, submit, recommend, present, bring up, introduce; call attention to, bring to mind, bring into consideration or notice; offer, proffer, tender, give, hold out, put forward, propound; adduce, allege, affirm, assert, bring forward.
4. promote, back, support, further, forward, help onward, facilitate; assist, aid, abet, foster, benefit; boost, raise, lift, increase, add to, augment, contribute to, conduce to; improve, strengthen, amend, make better, develop; progress, succeed, thrive, flourish, prosper, come on, grow.
5. move up, be promoted, improve in rank, rise to a higher position; strive for, work up to.
6. accelerate, speed up, pick up, step up, expedite; hasten, hurry, hustle, precipitate, antedate, Archaic. dispatch; quicken, stimulate, energize, SI. open up, SI. jazz up; drive, incite, goad, spur, impel, compel; force, push on, urge on or forward, press or move forward.
7. pay up front, make a down payment, make a deposit, buy on the installment plan, buy on the lay-a-way plan, retain, pay a retainer; supply, provide, produce, furnish, deliver, render; give, accord, contribute, donate, yield, afford; pay, lend, loan, accommodate. -n. 8. progress, movement forward, headway; gaining ground, pushing forward, forging ahead; moving along, going forward, pressing on, pushing ahead; inching ahead, edging along.
9. promotion, furtherance, improvement, advancement, rise, elevation; enhancement, ennoblement, aggrandizement, exaltation, honor, dignity. 10. breakthrough, step forward, major development; discovery, finding; invention, innovation, creation, production. 11.
advances overtures, preludes, motions, gestures; offers, tenders, invitations, proposals, propositions. 12. price rise, price increase, markup, boost; addition, augmentation, increase, increment, gain. 13. down payment, deposit, retainer, payment up front. 14.
in advance a. before, in front, ahead, prior, first, in the lead, forward,
b. beforehand, previously, prematurely, early, before-time.
-adj. 15. lead, first, precedent, antecedent. 16. preview, pre-examination; prepublication, preliminary or prior article.
advanced, adj. 1. forward, placed in advance or at the front or forward, ranged at the front, set in the van.
2. improved, bettered, changed for the better; developed, perfected, refined, polished, honed-down.
3. precocious, early, far ahead, born before one's time; forward-looking, ahead of its time, progressive; avant-garde, ultramodern, way-out, far-out; original, unconventional, one of a kind.
4. old, aged, ancient, venerable, old as the hills; far on in years, far on in time, along in years, well-along, at an advanced age.
advancement, n. progress, movement forward, headway, promotion. See - advance (defs. 8, 9).
advantage, n. 1. benefit, behoof, good, gain, profit; advancement, betterment, improvement; blessing, boon, prize, favor, help; privilege, vantage, convenience, comfort, easement, accommodation; use, utility, service, expediency; head start, favoring circumstance, favorable opportunity, superior situation.
2. power, authority, mastery, prestige; superiority, ascendancy, supremacy, preeminence, prerogative, right; leverage, hold, grip, purchase; odds, odds on one's side, upper hand, edge, whiphand, in; ace in the hole, trump card.