Usually means: Improvement or enhancement of something.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. amelioration: Merriam-Webster
  2. amelioration: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. amelioration: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. amelioration: Collins English Dictionary
  5. amelioration: Vocabulary.com
  6. Amelioration, amelioration: Wordnik
  7. amelioration: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. amelioration: Wiktionary
  9. amelioration: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Amelioration, amelioration: Dictionary.com
  11. amelioration: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Amelioration (linguistics), Amelioration: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Amelioration: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. amelioration: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. amelioration: Rhymezone
  16. amelioration: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. amelioration: FreeDictionary.org
  18. amelioration: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. amelioration: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. Amelioration: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. amelioration: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. amelioration: Medical dictionary
  3. Amelioration: Drug Medical Dictionary
  4. Amelioration: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary

(Note: See ameliorate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (amelioration)

noun:  The act of making better.
noun:  An improvement.
noun:  (linguistics) The process by which a term gains a more positive connotation over time.
noun:  (philosophy) An ameliorative change of a concept or a repertoire of concepts.

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