betterment
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English
Etymology
Noun
betterment (countable and uncountable, plural betterments)
- An improvement.
- 2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 43:
- When BR "back-checked" (BR's term) the financial results of steam replacement across 49 schemes, where DMUs had been substituted on the London Midland Region, only one was now profitable. BR thinking on such substitutions referred to "betterment", not profit or loss.
- (law) An improvement to a property that adds to its value.
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an improvement
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