Advance commonly refers to:

  • Advance, an offensive push in sports, games, thoughts, military combat, or sexual or romantic pursuits
  • Advance payment for goods or services
  • Advance against royalties, a payment to be offset against future royalty payments

Advance may also refer to:

Media

  • Advance (newspaper), a Sudanese newspaper
  • Advance Publications, an American media company headquartered in New York City
  • Advance Digital, part of Advance Local, owned by Advance Publications
  • Advance Newspapers, former company based in Hudsonville, Michigan, later bought by Advance Publications, defunct 2019
  • Barrie Advance, a weekly newspaper serving Barrie, Ontario

Music

  • Advance (album), a 1996 album by British techno act LFO
  • Advance!, a jazz album by drummer Philly Joe Jones
  • Advance/Mata Asa ga Kuru, song by Tokio

Organizations

  • Advance (lobby group), a conservative political lobby group in Australia (formerly Advance Australia)
  • Advance (trade union), a trade union based in the United Kingdom
  • Advance New Zealand Party, abbreviated as Advance NZ or Advance, a political party active from 2020 to 2021
  • Advance New Zealand (1995), a former political party in New Zealand
  • Advance Thun SA, a Swiss paraglider manufacturer based in Thun
  • Advance Together, abbreviated as Advance, a short-lived British political party
  • Advance UK, a far-right political party in the United Kingdom

Places

Canada

  • Advance, Ontario

United States

  • Advance, California
  • Advance, Indiana
  • Flatwoods, Kentucky, originally known as Advance
  • Advance, Michigan
  • Advance, Missouri
  • Advance, North Carolina
  • Advance, Ohio
  • Advance, Wisconsin
  • Advance Township, North Dakota

Ships

  • Advance (or A. D. Vance), a Confederate blockade runner (1863-1864)
  • Advance (1872), a wooden Top sail schooner
  • Advance (1874), a Composite Schooner
  • Advance (1884), an Iron Steamer screw Tug
  • Advance (1903), a diesel powered wooden carvel schooner
  • Advance (shipwrecked 1933), a screw steamer
  • , several ships of the US Navy

Other uses

  • Advance (English automobile), an English tricar
  • Advance (Australian motorcycle), a built-to-order bike 1905–1906
  • Advance (horse), a Thoroughbred horse
  • Game Boy Advance, a 2001 Nintendo handheld
  • Game Boy Advance SP, the 2003 successor
  • Mario Party Advance, a 2005 video game
  • Nilfisk-Advance, a brand of cleaning equipment

See also

  • Advancement (disambiguation)

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  • Ahead (disambiguation)
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