betterment Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a change for the better; progress in development
    advance; improvement.
  2. noun an improvement that adds to the value of a property or facility
  3. noun the act of relieving ills and changing for the better
    melioration; amelioration.

WordNet


Bet"ter*ment noun
Definitions
  1. A making better; amendment; improvement. W. Montagu.
  2. (Law) An improvement of an estate which renders it better than mere repairing would do; -- generally used in the plural. U. S. Bouvier.

Webster 1913