Phrase Hound found 14 phrases and 6 compound words that contain improvement. The most common are listed below. Open improvement in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 14
- home improvementThe act of making changes to one's home in order to make it prettier, larger, more efficient, or generally better
- self-improvementThe following of a disciplined programme to improve one's physical health, mental health or character.
- Continuous Improvement
- Quality improvement
- Performance improvement
- School improvement
- Improvement plan
- require improvementTo be in a state of failing.
- required improvementsimple past and past participle of require improvement
- requires improvementthird-person singular simple present indicative of require improvement: To be in a state of failing.
- Pareto improvementA change in the allocation of a resource to a set of individuals that is an improvement for at least one and no worse for any other.
- Kaldor-Hicks improvementAn economic reallocation of resources among people, such that those who are made better off could hypothetically compensate those who are made worse off and lead to a Pareto-improving outcome.
- requiring improvementpresent participle and gerund of require improvement
- tomahawk improvementA method used by early settlers, particulary in the Appalachian and Old West regions, to mark land claims, by cutting or girdling trees around a tract of land with a tomahawk.
Compound words 6
- disimprovementReduction from a better to a worse state.
- nonimprovementLack of improvement; failure to improve.
- unimprovementLack of improvement; failure to improve.
- overimprovementExcessive improvement
- pseudoimprovementAn apparent improvement that does not represent a real bettering of the situation.
- misimprovementimproper usage; use for bad purposes.