Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• BETTERMENT
  
  The improvement of real estate that results in a rise in market value. Also, a legal concept of civil law: when a court award, judgment or order in favor of an injured party places that party in a better position than he would have been had his original injury never taken place.
  
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