Usually means: Improved or enhanced in quality.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word bettered:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. bettered: Merriam-Webster
  2. bettered: Collins English Dictionary
  3. bettered: Vocabulary.com
  4. bettered: Wordnik
  5. bettered: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. bettered: Wiktionary
  7. Bettered, bettered: Dictionary.com
  8. bettered: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Bettered: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Bettered: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. bettered: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. bettered: FreeDictionary.org
  13. bettered: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bettered: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bettered: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bettered: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (better)

adjective:  Greater in amount or quantity
adjective:  Greater or lesser (whichever is seen as more advantageous), in reference to value, distance, time, etc.
adjective:  Healed or recovered from an injury or illness.
noun:  An entity, usually animate, deemed superior to another; one who has a claim to precedence; a superior.
verb:  (modal, auxiliary verb, colloquial) Had better.
verb:  (transitive) To improve.
verb:  (intransitive) To become better; to improve.
verb:  (transitive) To surpass in excellence; to exceed; to excel.
verb:  (transitive) To give advantage to; to support; to advance the interest of.
noun:  Alternative spelling of bettor [A person who makes a bet, such as a wager on the outcome of a game of chance or a sporting event.]
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