Definition for Advances:

• Moneys paid before or in advance of the proper time of payment; money or commodities furnished on credit; a loan or gift, or money advanced to be repaid conditionally. Vail v. Vail, 10 Barb. ( N. Y.) 69. This word, when taken in its strict legal sense, does not mean gifts, ( advancements,) and does mean a sort of loan; and, when taken in its ordinary and usual sense, it includes both loans and gifts,

Synonyms for Advances:

• v.

  •approaches (verb)
  • approaches,
  • closes,
  • Comes,
  • accesses,
  • looms,
  • converges,
  • Gains,
  • nears,
  • impends.
  •benefits (verb)
  • avails,
  • does good,
  • contributes,
  • serves,
  • helps,
  • assists,
  • favors,
  • betters.
  •expedites (verb)
  • Hurries,
  • promotes,
  • hastens,
  • accelerates,
  • facilitates,
  • Quickens,
  • expedites,
  • furthers.
  •facilitates (verb)
  • eases,
  • simplifies,
  • aids,
  • encourages.
  •progresses (verb)
  • proceeds.

• Other synonyms:

  •Other relevant words:
  • abut,
  • access,
  • accomplish,
  • accord,
  • achieve,
  • acknowledge,
  • acquaint,
  • acquiesce,
  • acquire,
  • acquired immune deficiency syndrome,
  • act,
  • actuate,
  • add up,
  • adept,
  • adjure,
  • adopt,
  • advise,
  • affect,
  • affectionate,
  • affiliate,
  • age,
  • aged,
  • agree,
  • ahead,
  • aim,
  • all,
  • aloofness,
  • altogether,
  • amaze,
  • amount,
  • approach path,
  • approach shot,
  • aright,
  • arouse,
  • arrest,
  • arrive,
  • arrive at,
  • articulation,
  • ask for,
  • ask in,
  • ask over,
  • ask round,
  • assent,
  • assert,
  • associate,
  • assort,
  • attack,
  • attendant,
  • attender,
  • award,
  • baffle,
  • bang,
  • barge,
  • be active,
  • be intimate,
  • be on,
  • beat,
  • become,
  • bed,
  • beforehand,
  • beget,
  • begin,
  • beginning,
  • beneficial,
  • beseech,
  • bestride,
  • betterment,
  • bewilder,
  • bidding,
  • board,
  • bodoni,
  • bonk,
  • boost,
  • border,
  • border on,
  • bosom,
  • bow,
  • bring,
  • bring forth,
  • bring forward,
  • bring in,
  • bring up,
  • bug out,
  • bugger off,
  • build,
  • build up,
  • bulge,
  • bulge out,
  • butt,
  • butt against,
  • butt on,
  • buzz off,
  • call,
  • call down,
  • call for,
  • call forth,
  • capture,
  • carry on,
  • cash advance,
  • catch,
  • cause,
  • chance on,
  • chance upon,
  • choir,
  • circulate,
  • climb on,
  • cognise,
  • cognize,
  • come about,
  • come across,
  • come in,
  • come near,
  • come out,
  • come to the fore,
  • come up,
  • come upon,
  • coming,
  • command,
  • commence,
  • commencement,
  • commodity,
  • communicate,
  • compensate,
  • completely,
  • comprehend,
  • concord,
  • confront,
  • conjoin,
  • conjure,
  • conjure up,
  • connect,
  • contact,
  • continue,
  • continuous tense,
  • contract,
  • convey,
  • correct,
  • correctly,
  • cover,
  • crank,
  • cranky,
  • cutter,
  • dear,
  • decent,
  • decently,
  • declare oneself,
  • defer,
  • deliver,
  • demo,
  • demonstrate,
  • depart,
  • department of state,
  • dependable,
  • derive,
  • descend,
  • develop,
  • dictation,
  • discover,
  • disk operating system,
  • displace,
  • distribute,
  • do it,
  • draw,
  • draw close,
  • draw near,
  • drive,
  • dumbfound,
  • edge,
  • eff,
  • effective,
  • elder,
  • elderly,
  • elevate,
  • embark,
  • embark on,
  • embracing,
  • encompass,
  • encourage,
  • endure,
  • engender,
  • enrol,
  • enroll,
  • entirely,
  • entreat,
  • espouse,
  • estimable,
  • evoke,
  • exhibit,
  • experience,
  • expert,
  • extend,
  • face,
  • fall,
  • fall in,
  • fall out,
  • fall upon,
  • fare,
  • father,
  • feeler,
  • figure,
  • find,
  • first,
  • fit in,
  • fix,
  • fledged,
  • fling,
  • flop,
  • flummox,
  • follow,
  • fond,
  • forrad,
  • forrader,
  • forrard,
  • forthcoming,
  • forward,
  • forward motion,
  • forward-looking,
  • forward-moving,
  • fourth-year,
  • fraternise,
  • fresh,
  • freshly,
  • friendly relationship,
  • frontward,
  • frontwards,
  • fuck off,
  • full,
  • further,
  • furtherance,
  • gain,
  • generate,
  • get along with,
  • get down,
  • get going,
  • get in,
  • get into,
  • get it on,
  • get laid,
  • get on with,
  • get together,
  • gift,
  • give,
  • give in,
  • glide path,
  • glide slope,
  • go,
  • go about,
  • go along,
  • go in,
  • go into,
  • go up,
  • goodness,
  • gravel,
  • groundbreaking ceremony,
  • grow,
  • hail,
  • hand,
  • hap,
  • happen,
  • happen upon,
  • harmonise,
  • harmonize,
  • have,
  • have a go at it,
  • have intercourse,
  • have it away,
  • have it off,
  • have sex,
  • head start,
  • hold up,
  • honest,
  • honorable,
  • hop on,
  • hug,
  • hump,
  • impart,
  • imperfect,
  • imperfect tense,
  • impress,
  • improvement,
  • in advance,
  • in effect,
  • in force,
  • incite,
  • incur,
  • induce,
  • infix,
  • initiate,
  • innovational,
  • inscribe,
  • insert,
  • introduce,
  • invoke,
  • issue,
  • issue forth,
  • jazz,
  • jump,
  • jump on,
  • junction,
  • juncture,
  • just,
  • justly,
  • keep,
  • kick upstairs,
  • kickoff,
  • last,
  • lay out,
  • lead off,
  • leave,
  • legal tender,
  • length,
  • let,
  • liberal,
  • lie with,
  • light upon,
  • link,
  • link up,
  • live,
  • live on,
  • locomote,
  • love,
  • lovesome,
  • make,
  • make love,
  • make out,
  • march,
  • march on,
  • marche,
  • maturate,
  • matured,
  • meet,
  • mightily,
  • mighty,
  • mod,
  • modern font,
  • modernistic,
  • mother,
  • motility,
  • motion,
  • motivate,
  • mount,
  • mount up,
  • move into,
  • movement,
  • mystify,
  • near,
  • newly,
  • nominate,
  • nonplus,
  • novel,
  • nowadays,
  • number,
  • obtain,
  • occur,
  • offer up,
  • offering,
  • offset,
  • older,
  • one,
  • onward,
  • onward motion,
  • onwards,
  • originate,
  • outdistance,
  • outset,
  • outstrip,
  • part,
  • participate,
  • pass,
  • pass around,
  • pass off,
  • pay back,
  • pay for,
  • pay off,
  • payoff,
  • perplex,
  • pinnace,
  • plan of attack,
  • play,
  • plough on,
  • plow ahead,
  • polished,
  • pop,
  • pop out,
  • pop the question,
  • portray,
  • pose,
  • posit,
  • powerful,
  • practiced,
  • preliminary,
  • prelude,
  • present tense,
  • press,
  • procession,
  • produce,
  • proficient,
  • progression,
  • progressive tense,
  • progressivity,
  • project,
  • promote,
  • promotion,
  • prompt,
  • propel,
  • proper,
  • properly,
  • proposition,
  • protrude,
  • provide,
  • pull ahead,
  • purport,
  • purpose,
  • put across,
  • put out,
  • puzzle,
  • raise,
  • raw,
  • reach,
  • receive,
  • recognise,
  • recognize,
  • record,
  • recruit,
  • rectify,
  • redress,
  • refined,
  • reformist,
  • relegate,
  • relocation,
  • represent,
  • resist,
  • respectable,
  • return,
  • right field,
  • right on,
  • rightfield,
  • rightfulness,
  • ripen,
  • rise,
  • roll in the hay,
  • run,
  • safe,
  • salutary,
  • salute,
  • scram,
  • scratch,
  • secure,
  • seed,
  • seminal fluid,
  • sensitive,
  • serious,
  • set about,
  • set ahead,
  • set forth,
  • set out,
  • ship's boat,
  • shipway,
  • show,
  • sire,
  • skilful,
  • skillful,
  • sleep with,
  • slipway,
  • sore,
  • sound,
  • soundly,
  • space,
  • speed,
  • squeeze,
  • stage,
  • stairs,
  • stamp,
  • stand firm,
  • start out,
  • starting,
  • starting line,
  • starting signal,
  • starting time,
  • startle,
  • state,
  • state department,
  • step forward,
  • step to the fore,
  • stick,
  • stimulate,
  • stir,
  • stretch forth,
  • stretch out,
  • strike,
  • stupefy,
  • submit,
  • suffer,
  • suggest,
  • suggestion,
  • sum,
  • supercharge,
  • supply ship,
  • suppurate,
  • survive,
  • sustain,
  • sweep up,
  • take,
  • take place,
  • takings,
  • tempt,
  • tenderise,
  • tenderize,
  • thoroughly,
  • throw out,
  • thrust ahead,
  • tippy,
  • total,
  • totally,
  • touch,
  • travel,
  • turn over,
  • unexampled,
  • union,
  • unite,
  • unspoiled,
  • unspoilt,
  • untoughened,
  • upcoming,
  • upgrade,
  • upright,
  • veracious,
  • vex,
  • volunteer,
  • wear,
  • well,
  • whirl,
  • whole,
  • wholly,
  • win,
  • wish,
  • withstand,
  • work up,
  • yield,
  • young,
  • right hand,
  • right wing,
  • get-go,
  • take off,
  • put up,
  • senesce,
  • come along,
  • shape up,
  • step up,
  • take in,
  • set off,
  • take up,
  • put down,
  • start up,
  • get under one's skin,
  • reform-minded,
  • sleep together,
  • crack,
  • joint,
  • screw,
  • showtime,
  • ejaculate,
  • fuck,
  • semen,
  • cum,
  • pass along,
  • scratch line,
  • trade good,
  • come on,
  • right-hand,
  • united states department of state.

Paraphrases for Advances:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    advance.
  • Proper noun, plural
    avances.
  • Proper noun, singular
    advanced, progression, Imprest.
  • Noun, plural
    avances, 'avances, rises.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    headway, progression, Imprest.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    avances.

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, plural
    change, changes.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Proper noun, plural
    advancements.
  • Proper noun, singular
    advancements.
  • Noun, plural
    advancements.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    advanced.
  • Proper noun, plural
    Achievements.
  • Proper noun, singular
    ADV, Achievements, overpowers, launches, opens, Worked, STRIDES, annual, tops, graduate, Gives, rolls, holds, files, breakthrough, avance.
  • Noun, plural
    developing, advantages, advocates, breakthroughs, enhanced, credentials, enhancements, accomplishments, Enhancing, novedades, preferences, develop, Remittances, Promoting, initiatives, increase, increases, circumstances, innovation, innovations, promotion, promotions, Evolutions, Facilitating, accomplished, corrections, reinforces, contributes, trends, benefits, contributions, facilitates, envisages, milestones, developed, strengthens, installments, Gains, enhances, moves, Incentives, concessions, endeavours, progressives, upgrade, upgrades, balances, stimulates, disbursements, condemns, incidents, details, instalments, offensives, promote, conquests, techniques, endorses, technologies, successes, pre-payments, dynamics, occasions, evolves, expansions, recoveries, affections, renewals, credits, updates, everywhere, Discoveries, inventions, safeguards, acquisitions, stages, briefings, appropriations, interests, refinements, formulates, INROADS, attainments, devices, improves, increments, leaps, earnings, nouvelles, deliverables, masters, insinuations, champions, Investments, before, disclosures, establishes, outcomes, payments, receivables, departments, done, helps, Drives, Tendencies, denounces, services, L, levels, overtures, Victories, events, challenges, novelties, findings, elements, ancestors, openings, entitlements, Movements, experiments, crossings, Phases, reaches, deposits, excels, therapies, Suggestions, news, orders, Measurements, prerogatives, LDCS, privileges, winnings, altitudes, Expenditures, Virtues, patterns, trailers, serves, sets, depths, processes, Capabilities, Opportunities, actions, upholds, reflects, strengths, games, Areas, profits, argues, FIRSTS, merits, acquis, attacks, favours, things, insights, supports, demands, reforms, triumphs, assists, PROGRES, outposts, Measures, outlays, thanks, features, Los, hikes, fuels, footsteps, rejects, projects, LIBERALS, targets, peaks, displays, passports, Tracks, employers, debts, cushions, releases, hints, Ones, works, wins, proposes, highs, Miles, views, funds, degrees, points, results, nothing, schemes, Fruits, pros, touches, litres, proposals, claims, shifts, loans, approaches, options, passes, finds, trials, Facilities, Motions, fixes, Achievements, Efforts, amounts, runs, Programs, outputs, accounts, Formulae, Bases, attempts, STRIDES, encourages, fosters.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    cross-borrowing, anticipation, breakthrough, leap.
  • Verb, past tense
    Progressed, accelerated, proceed, Proceeded, Introduced, led, Pushed, Contended, Enjoyed, Propelled, extended, Speculated, Cautioned, presented, suggested, Provided, asserted, Submitted, alleged, Cited, Offered, topped, Gave, stated, proposed, Argued, raised, Claimed, Filed, Approached, Supplied, made, Promoted, encouraged, foster, fostered.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Progressing, happening.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    furthers, exceeds, pushes, precedes, advocates, contends, enables, extends, speculates, maintains, asserts, contributes, invokes, Travels, alleges, enhances, unfolds, moves, cites, affirms, Permits, Lodged, Grants, walks, evolves, improves, keeps, takes, quotes, puts, allows, helps, Drives, posits, argues, favours, assists, proposes, claims, approaches, launches, tops, Gives, files, encourages, fosters.
  • Verb, base form
    account, boost.

Advances Sentence Examples:

• He had thought he was doing a great deal when he, an old man and so high in his profession, had made advances to the young fellow for his girl's sake.

• The million is all gone, wrote Parma to his master; some to Verdugo in Friesland; some to repay the advances of Marquis Richebourg and other gentlemen.

Homophones for Advances:

• Aythya Affinis.