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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 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 Advance is a town in Jackson Township, Boone County, Indiana, United States. The population was 477 at the 2010 census. History The town was platted in 1820 and was originally called "Osceola;" however, there was already a town of that name in ...

* Flatwoods, Kentucky, originally known as Advance * Advance, Michigan *

Advance, Missouri Advance is a city located at the intersection of State Highway 25 and State Highway 91/Route C in northern Stoddard County, Missouri, United States. The population was 1,347 at the 2010 census. Advance was founded ''circa'' 1882. The town is pron ...

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 is an unincorporated community at the junction of Dover, Chesterfield, and Pike Townships, in Fulton County, Ohio, United States, which is also the junction of County Road M and County Road 13. History Advance had a United States Post Offi ...

* Advance, Wisconsin * Advance Township, North Dakota

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 Advance Together (often shortened to Advance) was a British political party. The party was led by Annabel Mullin, a former Liberal Democrats (UK), Liberal Democrat member and parliamentary candidate for Kensington (UK Parliament constituency), Kens ...

, 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, an ...

, an American media company ** Advance Digital, part of Advance Local, owned by Advance Publications ** Advance Newspapers, 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) IJ Mitchell of Blyth, South Australia advertised ''Advance'' motorcycles built to order in 1905–06. At least one machine was registered.Robert Saward, “A-Z of Australian-Made Motorcycles: 1893-1942”, Turton & Armstrong, Sydney, 1996 Refere ...

, a built-to-order bike 1905–1906 * Advance Thun, a Swiss paraglider manufacturer *

Advance (horse) Advance was one of the great Thoroughbred colts of the New Zealand turf. Crowd-pleasing, front-running colt won good races up to 1-1/2 miles, but "The Black Demon" was best known as a superior weight-carrier, one of the best, if not the best, of ...