Definition of Furtherance

1. Noun. Encouragement of the progress or growth or acceptance of something.

Exact synonyms: Advancement, Promotion
Generic synonyms: Encouragement
Derivative terms: Advance, Further, Further, Promote

2. Noun. The advancement of some enterprise. "His experience in marketing resulted in the forwarding of his career"
Exact synonyms: Forwarding, Promotion
Generic synonyms: Advancement, Progress
Derivative terms: Promote

Definition of Furtherance

1. n. The act of furthering or helping forward; promotion; advancement; progress.

Definition of Furtherance

1. Noun. The act of furthering or helping forward ¹

2. Noun. Promotion. ¹

3. Noun. Advancement or progress. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Furtherance

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Furtherance

furshlugginer
fursona
fursonas
furst
fursuit
fursuited
fursuiter
fursuiters
fursuiting
fursuits
fursultiamin
furth
further(a)
further education
furtherance (current term)
furtherances
furthered
furtherer
furtherers
furtherest
furthering
furthermore
furthermost
furthers
furthersome
furtive
furtively
furtiveness

Literary usage of Furtherance

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Code Remedies: Remedies and Remedial Rights by the Civil Action According to by John Norton Pomeroy, Thomas Ashford Bogle (1904)
"Distinction between Actions in Opposition to, and in furtherance of, the Trust. There is a broad distinction between the case of an action brought in ..."

2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1913)
"It says the agents, servants, and employes, while jointly engaged In removing the tools from the car and In furtherance of the business of the defendants, ..."

3. The Foundations of Legal Liability: A Presentation of the Theory and by Thomas Atkins Street (1906)
"MUTUAL PROMISES IN furtherance OF PERFORMANCE OF EXISTING OBLIGATION VALID. We are now to consider the situation imagined in (2) ante, ..."

4. A Treatise on the Bankruptcy Law of the United States by Harold Remington (1915)
"Money Actually Advanced in furtherance of Conspiracy Not Refunded nor Allowed, ... Money actually advanced by conspirators in furtherance of their scheme to ..."

5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1866)
"... on the Kew system at the Observatory of Tiflis, by Professor Moritz of that place, would largely conduce to the furtherance of Magnetical Science. ..."

6. The Single Tax Movement in the United States by Arthur Nichols Young (1916)
"LABOR POLITICS The effect of the campaign on the furtherance of George's ideas The problem which every radical movement must face— whether the better policy ..."

7. American Law of Real Estate Agency: Including the Duties and Liabilities of by William Slee Walker (1922)
"Amendment of complaint at trial, in furtherance of justice, held proper. In an action for a division of broker's commissions, it was proper to permit ..."

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