improvedim‧proved /ɪmˈpruːvd/ ●●○ adjective [usually before noun] 
improved performance Our washing powder now has a new improved formula.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- a detergent with a new improved formula
- Garrett believes the new system will allow him to lower prices and provide improved service to customers.
- Perhaps you'd like to have a look at our new improved model?
- They're the most improved team in the league.
- This vastly improved information system means that doctors can see patients' medical histories at the flick of a switch.
- Blake says how pleased he is with the firm's improved performance, acknowledging the considerable efforts and progress it has made.
- Catalytic converter technology would be forced to advance at a much improved rate, showing that F1 does indeed improve motoring in general.
- It was claimed that this gives an improved warmth to weight ratio of around 25 percent and decreased bulk.
- Second, Compact offers an incentive to improved performance within areas which schools are already tackling.
- So will our improved I.T. systems.
- The great infectious epidemics responded to a combination of improved sanitation and hygiene, vaccination programmes and antibiotics.
- The sugarmill at Torreão outdistanced all its rivals through improved machinery and good management by its owner.
- This would enable improved therapeutic strategies to be properly evaluated.
Longman Language Activatorbetter than before
· The following day, the weather was a little better.better than · People's general health is a lot better these days than it used to be.get better · Your Spanish is definitely getting better.far better/much better/a lot better · Angie spent last week painting her bedroom -- it looks much better.
better than before as a result of changes that have been made -- used especially when selling or advertising a product: · Perhaps you'd like to have a look at our new improved model?· Garrett believes the new system will allow him to lower prices and provide improved service to customers.much/greatly/vastly improved: · This vastly improved information system means that doctors can see patients' medical histories at the flick of a switch.
to be better than something similar, such as a product or method, that existed before: be an improvement on something: · The new heating system is certainly an improvement on the old one.be a big improvement on something: · I wouldn't say it was my favorite show, but it's a big improvement on her last series.
spoken say this when something that is not happening or being done in the way that you want suddenly gets better: · Faster, faster -- good, that's more like it.· What's wrong with this TV set? It doesn't seem to be working -- ah, that's more like it.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Our washing powder now has a new improved formula.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Our washing powder now has a new improved formula.· The manufacturers come up with new, improved versions each year.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB· Although members are down in the senior section a greatly improved atmosphere now exists.· Later developments, however, have produced greatly improved versions of this type of cladding.· They can do this with a fraction of the water usage of the normal in-rack system and has a greatly improved performance.· The benefits: greatly improved productivity and more effective decision making which will provide your business with an even greater competitive advantage.· It also greatly improved blood circulation which in turn helps to induce peaceful, deep, relaxing sleep.· Because of this greatly improved performance, the board is recommending a 33% increase in dividend to 0.8 pence.· The result was a substantial increase in survival partly because of surgery and partly because of the greatly improved general care that infants received.
· Whilst profits in were somewhat reduced,, the specialist timber business achieved much improved results.· He also designed new and much improved axle bearings, which largely eliminated the overheating which had caused serious traffic delays.· You're showing much improved form and you've worked hard on your Christies.· The Therapy Wing has provided much improved facilities for occupational therapy and physiotherapy.· The National Railway Museum is settling down well in its new and much improved format.· The Mark 2 engine however is fitted with a much improved Weslake head which is best left on.
· Aqib Javed, a vastly improved bowler in the last year, was perfect as a back-up to the two great bowlers.· Blumlein's revolutionary technique vastly improved quality and simplified production, and was adopted internationally.· With our vastly improved materials, adhesives and security technology, perhaps the new clock has an even greater chance of survival?· It would make possible the provision of vastly improved public services, while reducing dependency upon them.· If they feel that taxation is unfair, intelligent people take advantage of vastly improved financial communication and look about the world.
NOUN· The group will also recommend improved access to private rented accommodation through rent deposit schemes.· The introduction of Medicare in 1984 improved access to services, but underlying problems remain.· Despite her handicap Dorothy, of Chandlers' Ford, Hants, campaigns for improved access for wheelchair users.· The right of all to improved access to training, including policies designed to ensure equal opportunities.· The commission will probably also recommend that the defence be given improved access to forensic facilities.· By this means, scholars from other universities world-wide will have improved access to the library's collections without leaving their desks.· Environmentalists criticized it for emphasizing improved access to energy supplies while failing to ensure adequate environmental safeguards.· The complete archive is being reorganised to allow improved access to the data held and a quicker response time to enquiries.
· But improved communications, technological change, and increased demand led to concentration of food production in fewer and greater units.· The advent of motorized transportation further improved communications.· However there are many references to improved communication, greater interchangeability, efficiency and responsiveness to client needs.· Factory reorganisation, cost-cutting, team working, training and improved communications contributed to an immediate upturn in fortunes.· Parent Network believes that parenting can be learned, and that improved communication can do wonders for family harmony.· Contribute to improved communication on risk issues between your organisation and the community.
· Time allowed 00:19 Read in studio Disabled people are demanding improved facilities in city centres.· I believe that this would lead to a better service and improved facilities for the public.· We hope these improved facilities will make booking tickets easier.· The Therapy Wing has provided much improved facilities for occupational therapy and physiotherapy.· They could have modern hostels, improved facilities.
· James Fanshawe's filly was showing improved form in storming to a six-length win from Absalom's Pillar.· You're showing much improved form and you've worked hard on your Christies.· Through its OptiPure programme, Sepracor is developing improved forms of several commonly prescribed drugs.
· Large sections of the population, the subordinate classes specifically, were desperately in need of improved health care.· The one undoubted gain has been improved health, and with it longer life itself.· Thus, improved health in poor societies can lead to larger population, greater poverty, and eventually deterioration in health.· This leads to improved health and a sense of well-being.· All that the Labour party offers is promises and rhetoric; we have delivered an improved health service.· In contrast the younger members of the population appear to be offering more individual behavioural dimensions to explain improved health status.· It said little about care through improved health services.· This interpretation assumes that the objective need for institutional care has not been reduced by improved health and fitness of old people.
· A much improved method for typing this polymorphism has since been reported.· It should then be possible to understand the limits of potential expert systems, and to suggest improved methods for knowledge elicitation.· Electrolytic production of alkalis and improved methods of making sulphuric acid soon followed.
· The empirical grounds are that studies of post-merger performance are far from unanimous in identifying improved performance.· At first glance, they seemed to do much better under hypnosis but the improved performance was mostly skin-deep.· Manager Ken Knott is optimistic of an improved performance tonight.· These data suggest that the reforms may not be responsible for the improved performance observed.· Drivers do not take full advantage of a vehicle's improved performance.· Thomas said their improved performances should lead to better fixtures next season.· Second, Compact offers an incentive to improved performance within areas which schools are already tackling.· Blake says how pleased he is with the firm's improved performance, acknowledging the considerable efforts and progress it has made.
· In return, we expect the industry to fight for its share of the electricity market by improved productivity.· The benefits: greatly improved productivity and more effective decision making which will provide your business with an even greater competitive advantage.· But there is no merit in improved productivity without any other sign of improved performance.· Any future fleet changes are likely to reflect the importance of improved productivity, noise reduction and fuel economy.
· This will keep the board informed of fundholders' efforts to secure high standards and improved quality of care.· That creates strong pressure to emulate the best and so will lead to improved quality and efficiency.· Blumlein's revolutionary technique vastly improved quality and simplified production, and was adopted internationally.· The most encouraging outcome is patient survival with an improved quality of life.· Finally, and supporting all these new initiatives, we have introduced improved quality control procedures.· We can draw considerable encouragement from the improved quality of their health care.
· Whilst profits in were somewhat reduced,, the specialist timber business achieved much improved results.· The catalyst to make her trust in her abilities and the improved results was there was no separate ladies' event.
· Canals were appreciably slower and the advantage of improved roads actually increased in this respect.
· In return, it offers the customer improved service and facilities.· More modest examples of improved services included provision of physiotherapy and specialist consultations in the practice premises.· If, therefore, public spending increases we have no idea whether the rise went in pay or in improved services.· Some routes thought to be in danger will instead get improved services.· The passing loop at Knighton is scheduled to be restored by next year, which should make an improved service possible.
· This had mainly been achieved by improved standards of recording work done and quality control.
· The latter has led to the development and promotion of improved systems of hill sheep production by the official advisory services.· But, more recently it became necessary to introduce an improved system based more fully on microelectronics.· The differing needs might not be irreconcilable with an improved system.· Thereafter I shall consider the status and the training of the teachers needed by any improved system of school education.
· A good starting-point for developing an improved understanding of the state are Foucault's and Giddens's recent works.
· The 325i costs £21,250 and is joined initially by the 318i with an improved version of the old 4-cylinder engine at £14,950.· Take the new, improved version of the Cross of Lourdes being advertised in Prediction magazine.· Later developments, however, have produced greatly improved versions of this type of cladding.· Current trends suggest that many organisations expect to store increasing percentages of their records in improved versions of such systems.
WORD FAMILYnounimprovementadjectiveimprovedverbimprove
better than before: improved performance Our washing powder now has a new improved formula.