betterment
n.
improvement, advancement; reform, reconstruction
Betterment
Betterment, making
better, as opposed to worsement, is a general term used particularly in connection with the increased value given to
real property by causes for which a
tenant or the
public, but not the owner, is responsible; it is thus of the nature of unearned increment. When, for instance, some public improvement results in raising the value of a piece of private land, and the owner is thereby bettered through no merit of his own, he gains by the betterment, and many
economists and
politicians have sought to arrange, by
taxation or otherwise, that the increased value shall come into the pocket of the public rather than into the owner's. A betterment tax would be so assessed as to divert from the owner of the property the
profit thus accruing unearned to him. The whole problem is one of the incidence of taxation and the question of land values, and various applications of the principle of betterment have been tried in the
United States and in
England, raising considerable controversy from time to time.
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betterment
Noun
1. a change for the better; progress in development
(synonym) improvement, advance
(hypernym) transformation, transmutation, shift
(hyponym) revival, resurgence, revitalization, revitalisation, revivification
(derivation) better, improve, ameliorate, meliorate
2. an improvement that adds to the value of a property or facility
(hypernym) improvement, melioration
3. the act of relieving ills and changing for the better
(synonym) amelioration, melioration
(hypernym) improvement
(derivation) better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate
Betterment
(n.)
An improvement of an estate which renders it better than mere repairing would do; -- generally used in the plural.
(n.)
A making better; amendment; improvement.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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