(v. t.) To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.
(v. t.) To raise; to elevate.
(v. t.) To raise to a higher rank; to promote.
(v. t.) To accelerate the growth or progress; to further; to forward; to help on; to aid; to heighten; as, to advance the ripening of fruit; to advance one's interests.
(v. t.) To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show; as, to advance an argument.
(v. t.) To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten.
(v. t.) To furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due, or in aid of an enterprise; to supply beforehand; as, a merchant advances money on a contract or on goods consigned to him.
(v. t.) To raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate; as, to advance the price of goods.
(v. t.) To extol; to laud.
(v. i.) To move or go forward; to proceed; as, he advanced to greet me.
(v. i.) To increase or make progress in any respect; as, to advance in knowledge, in stature, in years, in price.
(v. i.) To rise in rank, office, or consequence; to be preferred or promoted.
(v.) The act of advancing or moving forward or upward; progress.
(v.) Improvement or progression, physically, mentally, morally, or socially; as, an advance in health, knowledge, or religion; an advance in rank or office.
(v.) An addition to the price; rise in price or value; as, an advance on the prime cost of goods.
(v.) The first step towards the attainment of a result; approach made to gain favor, to form an acquaintance, to adjust a difference, etc.; an overture; a tender; an offer; -- usually in the plural.
(v.) A furnishing of something before an equivalent is received (as money or goods), towards a capital or stock, or on loan; payment beforehand; the money or goods thus furnished; money or value supplied beforehand.
(a.) Before in place, or beforehand in time; -- used for advanced; as, an advance guard, or that before the main guard or body of an army; advance payment, or that made before it is due; advance proofs, advance sheets, pages of a forthcoming volume, received in advance of the time of publication.
Example Sentences:
(1) This selective review emphasizes advances in neurochemistry which provide a context for current and future research on neurological and psychiatric disorders encountered in clinical practice.
(2) Increased plasmin activity was associated with advancing stage of lactation and older cows after appropriate adjustments were made for the effects of milk yield and SCC.
(3) These results suggest that the pelvic floor is affected by progressive denervation but descent during straining tends to decrease with advancing age.
(4) An association of cyclophosphamide, fluorouracil and methotrexate already employed with success against solid tumours in other sites was used in the treatment of 62 patients with advanced tumours of the head and neck.
(5) When TSLP was pretreated with TF5 in vitro, the most restorative effects on the decreased MLR were found in hyperplastic stage and the effects were becoming less with the advance of tumor developments.
(6) Finally the advanced automation of the equipment allowed weekly the evaluation of catecholamines and the whole range of their known metabolites in 36 urine samples.
(7) Since the advance and return of sperm inside the tubes could facilitate the interaction of sperm with secretions participating in its maturation, the persistent infertility after vasectomy could be related to the contractile alteration that follows the excessive tubal distention.
(8) Over the past decade the use of monoclonal antibodies has greatly advanced our knowledge of the biological properties and heterogeneity that exist within human tumours, and in particular in lung cancer.
(9) The automatic half of both the motor which advances the trepan as well as the second motor which rotates the trepan is triggered by the sudden change in electrical resistance between the trepan and the patient's internal body fluid, at the final stage of penetration.
(10) Under a revised deal most people are now being vetted on time, but charges for the service have had to rise from £12 and free vetting for volunteers, to £28 for a standard disclosure and £33 for an advanced disclosure.
(11) Histological and electron-microscopic study of the lungs of 15 patients who had been treated with bleomycin for advanced squamous cell carcinoma demonstrated marked histological changes in nine.
(12) With better understanding of metabolic and compositional requirements, great advances have been made in the area of total parenteral nutrition.
(13) Meanwhile Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, waiting anxiously for news of the scale of the Labour advance in his first nationwide electoral test, will urge the electorate not to be duped by the promise of a coalition mark 2, predicting sham concessions by the Conservatives .
(14) 16 tube (usually a Baker tube) was inserted by gastrostomy and advanced distally into the colon.
(15) Of his number, 266 patients were in the advance stage of their disease while another 42 still had localized cancers.
(16) N-Acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase (GAD) activities did not change significantly duringlate fetal, neonatal or young adult stages but increased significantly with advancing age.
(17) Serial antepartum platelet alloantibody quantitation by an enzyme-linked immunoabsorbent assay revealed rising antibody titers during advancing gestation.
(18) Most of the progressive cases were alcoholic, and some showed progression to advanced pancreatitis within 4 years.
(19) Expansion of the cell sheet following attachment, and the fusion of epiblasts advancing toward each other, does not require the presence of mineralocorticoid.
(20) One hundred and sixteen patients with advanced and metastatic adenocarcinoma of the pancreas were randomized to treatment with combined Streptozotocin and 5-fluorouracil or combined Streptozotocin and cyclophosphamide.
Prepayment
Definition:
(n.) Payment in advance.
Example Sentences:
(1) It’s a damp squib, a bit of a nothing result,” a leading energy analyst said of a report that is widely expected to endorse provisional findings released in March , and recommend price controls on prepayment meters and setting up a customer database to help rival suppliers target customers stuck on expensive default tariffs.
(2) The three prepayment plans appealed to different population groups.
(3) Thus prepayment in an organized setting did change hospital and ambulatory care utilization but did not reduce medical care costs.
(4) A group practice prepayment plan in Baltimore had consumers on its governing board and, in alliance with a powerful medical institution, successfully organized around political, economic, and social issues.
(5) Ofgem data showed that in 2014 around 130,000 electricity and 103,000 gas customers switched to credit meters – just 3% of all prepayment customers.
(6) A spokesman for Ofgem says: "The supplier is obligated to supply information on how a customer can obtain assistance if a prepayment meter is not operating effectively, including details of timescales for removal and resetting of the meter if that action is necessary."
(7) We studied the impact on use of services of only one factor-prepayment at the Marshfield Clinic, Wisconsin--with all other factors, including group practice, held constant.
(8) He added: “Tens of millions of pounds have been spent by the CMA and the companies themselves just to produce this low-key set of remedies.” Atherton is not convinced about the value of plans to cap prepayment meter bills and introduce an industry-wide customer database controlled by the industry regulator, Ofgem.
(9) Our research shows many prepay meter customers have to fork out hundreds of pounds more than those on online direct debit deals.
(10) The slow adoption of sealants into dental practice is attributed partly to the fact that few prepayment plans pay for sealants.
(11) The curative health services are decentralized and provide care through a variety of plans which combine capitation prepayment and modified fee-for service.
(12) He told MPs: "The initial phase of [a government] review has concluded and we will shortly start a consultation on a range of options, including plans to extend charging to some visitors and temporary residents who were previously exempt so that the default qualification for free NHS care would be permanent, not temporary, residence; ending free access to primary care for all visitors and tourists; introducing a prepayment or insurance requirement for temporary visitors to pay for NHS healthcare; and improving how the NHS can identify, charge and recover charges where they should apply.
(13) Employees joining or not joining three newly marketed prepayment plans were surveyed during the first marketing period and during another open enrollment period 18 months later.
(14) The CMA said it was considering remedies to fix the market, including removing barriers to switching, possible price controls and measures to prompt prepayment customers to switch by allowing other suppliers to contact them to offer better tariffs.
(15) In most respects, there were no adverse effects on the work relations of physicians, in the perceived quality of medical care, or in the institutional performance of physicians at the nine participating hospitals after the introduction of prepayment.
(16) Giving prepay meter customers a better deal is a crucial part of this.” Co-operative Energy said it was cutting its prepayment rates.
(17) Medicare will not be the only benefactor of this new scheme as prepayment spreads to other payors and providers of health care.
(18) In addition, although about one-half of persons with psychiatric disorders are believed to have their only contact with health care providers in the primary care sector, research findings suggest that depression often remains undetected and untreated in this secto; and there have been few data on how appropriateness of care for depression differs for patients in different health care delivery systems, or whose care is financed by prepayment or fee-for-service arrangements.
(19) Citizens Advice called for an extension of a recent price cap by the regulator Ofgem for 4m households on prepayment meters .
(20) A number of trends over the past decade predict that this transference to prepayment will continue in the future and will have a profound impact on the future practice of family medicine.