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offensive Offensive may refer to: * Offensive, the former name of the Dutch political party Socialist Alternative * Offensive (military), an attack * Offensive language ** Fighting words or insulting language, words that by their very utterance inflict inj ...

push in sports, games, thoughts, military combat, or sexual or romantic pursuits *

Advance payment An advance payment, or simply an advance, is the part of a contractually due sum that is paid or received in advance for goods or services, while the balance included in the invoice will only follow the delivery. Advance payments are recorded as ...

for goods or services * Advance against royalties, a payment to be offset against future royalty payments Advance may also refer to:

United States

* Advance, California * Advance, Indiana * Flatwoods, Kentucky, originally known as Advance * Advance, Michigan * Advance, Missouri *

Advance, North Carolina Advance (pronounced with the stress on the first syllable) is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Davie County, North Carolina, United States. It is seventy-five miles northeast of Charlotte. As of the 2010 census it ...

* Advance, Ohio * Advance, Wisconsin *

Advance Township, North Dakota Advance Township (formerly Avon Township) is a township in Pembina County, North Dakota, United States. At the time of the 2000 Census, its population was 143, with an estimated 122 people as of 2009. History Advance Township was organized in 1 ...

Canada

* Advance, Ontario

Ships

* ''Advance'' (or ''A. D. Vance''), a Confederate blockade runner (1863-1864) * ''Advance'' (1872), a wooden Top sail schooner * ''Advance'' (1874), a Composite Schooner * ''Advance'' (1884), an Iron Steamer screw Tug * ''Advance'' (1903), a diesel powered wooden carvel schooner * ''Advance'' (shipwrecked 1933), a screw steamer *, several ships of the US Navy

Organizations

* Advance Together, a short-lived British political party *

Advance (trade union) Advance is a certified, independent trade union affiliated to the TUC representing workers within the bank Santander UK, the UK subsidiary of Santander Group. The union was formerly known as the Abbey National Group Union (ANGU) before it expan ...

, a trade union based in the United Kingdom *

Advance Publications Advance Publications, Inc., doing business as Advance, is an American media company owned by the descendants of S.I. Newhouse Sr., Donald Newhouse and S.I. Newhouse Jr. It owns a large number of subsidiary companies, including Condé Nast, a ...

, an American media company **

Advance Digital Advance Digital provides sales and content strategy, product development and technology to the Advance Local media group, part of Advance Publications. Advance Publications is an American media company owned by the descendants of Samuel Irving N ...

, part of Advance Local, owned by Advance Publications **

Advance Newspapers Advance Newspapers, based in Hudsonville, Michigan, published weekly community newspapers for Kent County, Michigan and portions of Muskegon, Ottawa, and Allegan counties. Advance Newspapers started as an independent company, later purchased by ...

, based in Hudsonville, Michigan *''

Barrie Advance The ''Barrie Advance'' is a weekly newspaper serving Barrie, Ontario. History The first newspaper north of Toronto was published August 6, 1847, though because it was truly a time of pioneer printing, it was actually a week later due to a delay ...

'', a weekly newspaper serving Barrie, Ontario * ''Advance'' (newspaper), a Sudanese newspaper * Advance Thun, a Swiss paraglider manufacturer

Music

* ''Advance'' (album), a 1996 album by British techno act LFO *'' Advance!'', a jazz album by drummer Philly Joe Jones * Advance/Mata Asa ga Kuru, song by Tokio

Other uses

* Advance (English automobile), an English tricar * Advance (Australian motorcycle), a built-to-order bike 1905–1906 * Advance Thun, a Swiss paraglider manufacturer * Advance (horse), a Thoroughbred horse *

Game Boy Advance The (GBA) is a 32-bit handheld game console developed, manufactured and marketed by Nintendo as the successor to the Game Boy Color. It was released in Japan on March 21, 2001, in North America on June 11, 2001, in the PAL region on June 22, 2 ...

, a 2001 Nintendo handheld *

Game Boy Advance SP The Game Boy Advance SP (GBA SP), released in Japan on February 14, 2003, is a sixth-generation handheld game console developed, released, and marketed by Nintendo is a Japanese multinational video game company headquartered in Kyoto, ...