Noun

(en noun)

The act of advancing, or the state of being advanced; progression; improvement; furtherance; promotion to a higher place or dignity; as, the advancement of learning.

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An advance of money or value; payment in advance.

(legal) Property given, usually by a parent to a child, in advance of a future distribution.

Noun

(utilities)

The state or condition of being useful; usefulness.

Something that is useful.

(economics) The ability of a commodity to satisfy needs or wants; the satisfaction experienced by the consumer of that commodity.

(business, finance) A service provider, such as an electric company or water company; or , the securities of such a provider.

(computing) A software program designed to perform a single task or a small range of tasks, often to help manage and tune computer hardware, an operating system or application software.

I've bought a new disk utility that can recover deleted files.

(sports) The ability to play multiple positions.