Usually means: Improved quality, enhanced effectiveness, superior.
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  1. better: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. better, better: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. better, better: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  7. better: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. better: Wiktionary
  9. better: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. better: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. better: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. better: Dictionary.com
  13. better: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. better: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Better: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. better: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. better: Rhymezone
  19. better: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. better: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Better: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. better: Free Dictionary
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  25. better: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Better (disambiguation), better, the better: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. better: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. BETTER, Better (disambiguation), the better: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. BETTER: Acronym Finder
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  3. better, the better: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. better: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. better: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Better: Sports Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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