'Furtherance' definitions:
Definition of 'furtherance'
(from WordNet)
noun
Encouragement of the progress or growth or acceptance of something [syn: promotion, furtherance, advancement]
noun
The advancement of some enterprise; "his experience in marketing resulted in the forwarding of his career" [syn: forwarding, furtherance, promotion]
Definition of 'Furtherance'
From: GCIDE
- Furtherance \Fur"ther*ance\, n. The act of furthering or helping forward; promotion; advancement; progress. [1913 Webster]
- I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furthersnce and joy of faith. --Phil. i. 25. [1913 Webster]
- Built of furtherance and pursuing, Not of spent deeds, but of doing. --Emerson. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'furtherance'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accomplishment,
- advance,
- advancement,
- advancing,
- advocacy,
- advocating,
- aid,
- amelioration,
- amendment,
- amplification,
- ascent,
- assistance,
- backing,
- bettering,
- betterment,
- blossoming,
- boost,
- boosting,
- career,
- championing,
- championship,
- course,
- development,
- developmental change,
- elaboration,
- enhancement,
- enlargement,
- enrichment,
- eugenics,
- euthenics,
- evolution,
- evolutionary change,
- evolvement,
- evolving,
- expansion,
- expediting,
- expedition,
- explication,
- facilitation,
- flowering,
- forward motion,
- forwardal,
- forwarding,
- fostering,
- furthering,
- go-ahead,
- gradual change,
- Great Leap Forward,
- growth,
- headway,
- help,
- helping along,
- improvement,
- lift,
- march,
- maturation,
- melioration,
- mend,
- mending,
- natural development,
- natural growth,
- nonviolent change,
- ongoing,
- onward course,
- passage,
- patronage,
- pickup,
- preferential treatment,
- preferment,
- progress,
- progression,
- progressiveness,
- promotion,
- pursuit,
- recovery,
- restoration,
- revival,
- ripening,
- rise,
- rolling,
- rolling on,
- rushing,
- special treatment,
- speeding,
- succor,
- support,
- travel,
- upbeat,
- uplift,
- upping,
- upswing,
- uptrend,
- upward mobility,
- way