make advances
67 synonyms found
- accelerate
- act on
- adduce
- aggrandize
- allege
- amount
- approach
- assign
- bear upon
- break the ice
- change of location
- communicate with
- correspond
- court
- cultivate
- draw
- draw on
- elevate
- establish connection
- exalt
- exert influence
- get cozy with
- get to
- heighten
- importune
- improve
- increase
- interrogate
- lead on
- lobby
- lobby through
- magnetize
- maintain connection
- make a pass
- make an overture
- make contact with
- make overtures
- make up to
- motion
- move
- movement
- overture
- pay addresses to
- pay court to
- play up to
- proffer
- proposition
- pull strings
- question
- raise
- relate to
- reply to
- respond to
- run after
- shift
- shine up to
- solicit
- step-up
- suck up to
- suggestion
- sum
- throw a pass
- transformation
- transmutation
- travel
- wire-pull
- work on
Definition
(v) :
to bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on; to raise to a higher rank; to promote
"they . . . advanced their eyelids. --Shakespeare"
(n) :
a forward move; an amount of money or credit, especially given as a loan, or paid before it is due
"he made an advance payment on the prior shipment to show good faith."