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

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne