advance to

advance something to someone or something (against something)

to make an early payment of a sum of money promised or owed to a person or organization. We advanced the money to Tom against his next month's salary.

advance to(ward) someone or something

to move forward in the direction of someone or something. The line of people slowly advanced to the door of the theater.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
NapolÉOn	-	French (Rare)
Torny	-	Norwegian
Mladen	MLAH-den (Croatian, Serbian)	Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Bulgarian, Macedonian
Dominykas	-	Lithuanian
Antono	ahn-TO-no	Esperanto
Celia	SEEL-yə (English), SEE-lee-ə (English), THE-lyah (Spanish), SE-lyah (Latin American Spanish), CHE-lyah (Italian)	English, Spanish, Italian