Plural of betterment; improvements or enhancements made to a property, often with legal implications regarding who pays for upgrades.
From 'betterment' (itself from 'better' + '-ment'), a legal and real estate term. The '-ment' suffix creates nouns meaning 'the act or result of' an action, and '-s' pluralizes it.
In law and real estate, 'betterments' is a technical term that often creates disputes—if a tenant paints a rental apartment, is it a betterment they must undo, or a benefit to the landlord? The word reflects legal tensions between property rights and improvement.
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