improvement saksaksi - Sanakirja.org (englanti-saksa)

The act of improving; advancement or growth; promotion in desirable qualities; progress toward what is better; melioration; as, the improvement of the mind, of land, roads, etc.
The act of making profitable use or application of anything, or the state of being profitably employed; a turning to good account; practical application, as of a doctrine, principle, or theory, stated in a discourse.
The state of being improved; betterment; advance; also, that which is improved; as, the new edition is an improvement on the old.
Increase; growth; progress; advance.
(plural): Valuable additions or betterments, as buildings, clearings, drains, fences, etc., on premises.
(Patent Laws): A useful addition to, or modification of, a machine, manufacture, or composition.

I look upon your city as the best place of improvement.
Exercise is the chief source of improvement in all our faculties.
Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.
Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.[...]Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today.
A good improvement of his reason.
I shall make some improvement of this doctrine.
There is a design of publishing the history of architecture, with its several improvements and decays.
The parts of Sinon, Camilla, and some few others, are improvements on the Greek poet.
Those vices which more particularly receive improvement by prosperity.

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