Noun betterment has 3 senses
  1. improvement, betterment, advance - a change for the better; progress in development
    --1 is a kind of transformation, transmutation, shift
    --1 has particulars:
     revival, resurgence, revitalization, revitalisation, revivification; refinement, elaboration; adjustment, accommodation, fitting; conservation, preservation; recovery
    Derived form: verb better3
  2. betterment - an improvement that adds to the value of a property or facility
    --2 is a kind of
    improvement, melioration
  3. amelioration, melioration, betterment - the act of relieving ills and changing for the better
    --3 is a kind of improvement
    Derived form: verb better2
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