Noun
A making better; amendment; improvement.
An improvement of an estate which renders it better than mere repairing would do; -- generally used in the plural.
Source: Webster's dictionaryI will never be satisfied. Life is one constant search for betterment for me. Jayne Mansfield
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life. Henry Ford
Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment. Johan Huizinga
With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in men, than any other association of men. Clarence Darrow
The time must come when, great and pressing as change and betterment may be, they do not involve killing and hurting people. W. E. B. Du Bois
Don't postpone your betterment. Irish Proverb