self-advancement

noun

1. the act or process of improving one's position, education, etc

Example Sentences

Booker T. Washington's plan for black self-advancement depended on the assumption of a working rule of law in the South.

From The Daily Beast

Reflect on true friendships you casually threw under the bus for self-advancement, say, two years ago.

From The Daily Beast

Movement leaders, even myself, made our own plans for self-advancement.

From The Daily Beast

They foresaw that he would not miss such an opportunity for self-advancement, round which he had doubtless built ambitious hopes.

From Project Gutenberg

Yes,” he admitted, “but I thought your little movement was to be something more than party politics and self-advancement——?

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That no such reward was bestowed is most probably attributable to Hawke's own indifference to self-advancement.

From Project Gutenberg

Political leadership is thus a direct means of self-advancement, a temptation too strong for weak human nature.

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Selfishness—the mere, cold-blooded insistence for self-advancement—ruled supreme.

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