improvements
- 1Plural of improvement.
The city budgeted millions for road and bridge improvements this year.
Reviewers noted steady improvements across the latest software release.
Note
The plural carries a meaning the singular rarely does: valuable additions made to a piece of land, such as buildings, clearings, drains and fences. A farm's improvements are its fences and drains, not its rising yields. Elsewhere the plural simply counts separate instances of getting better, as in steady improvements across a software release, and the surrounding words decide which reading is meant.
improvements is a form of improvement
improvement, noun: The process of making something better, or of helping it grow and advance. Full entry
- Forms
- improvementimprovements plural
- Spelling
- improvement → improvements: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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