Synonyms for

Furthering

Verb / ˈfɜ:ðɜ:ɪŋ / Another word for furthering — explore alternatives below. For syllable breakdowns and pronunciation, see this word on Syllablesworld.

Definition

To help the progress or development of something; to promote or advance something.

Synonyms & similar words

encourage boost further foster advance promote advancing promoting encouraging facilitating boosting aiding assisting propelling spurring stimulating accelerating developing strengthening nurturing cultivating enriching improving enhancing augmenting expanding

Example sentences

  1. She is furthering her career by taking additional courses.
  2. The company is furthering their research on renewable energy sources.
  3. The government is furthering efforts to reduce pollution.
  4. Volunteering can be a way of furthering social causes.
  5. The promotion will further his chances of getting a raise.

Quotes

  • The furthering of knowledge corresponds to the increase of life. - Friedrich Schiller
  • What is called politics is comparatively something so superficial and inhuman, that, practically, I have never fairly recognized that it concerns me at all. The newspapers, I perceive, devote some of their columns specially to politics without charge; and this, one would say, is all that saves it. - Henry David Thoreau
  • For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. - Nelson Mandela

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