The word "improver" is usable in written English and is well written.
It can be used to refer to a person or thing that enhances or makes something better.
Example: "The new software is a significant improver of our workflow efficiency."
Alternatives: "Enhancer" or "Upgrader."
And KKR's adventures in Russia left its fingers badly burnt.Nevertheless, private equity's best hope is to become what it has long claimed to be: an improver of companies.
After Kent's death, he set up as a garden designer and by 1753 was the leading "improver of grounds" in England.
In a vintage crop of three-year-old sprinters this improver is not that far behind the best of them, finishing fifth in the Commonwealth Cup at Royal Ascot on his last start.
Charles Prosser – no relation – Secretary of the Royal Fine Art Commission from 1976-2005, recalled that Prosser could often persuade witnesses that they had thought of a solution that was pleasing both to themselves and the Commission and that would be of greater benefit to Scotland than the idea they had originally proposed; he used his position to be a constructive improver.
None behind her in the Oaks is taking Talent on again; her rival at the top of today's market, after steady support during the week, is another well-bred, lightly raced improver, Riposte, from the Lady Cecil stable.
And while the Grand National has been dominated (last year's race aside) in recent times by seasoned old campaigners, the Welsh version is much more a race for the young improver.
Djokovic can be the idiot, but he is also the savant, a self-aware self-improver fascinated by the workings of the human psyche.
One was Will Carlin, also fifty, and even more of a tinkerer and a self-improver than I was.
It's a welter of paradoxes: a staunchly anti-union enterprise that embraces some progressive labor practices; a self-styled world-improver that must also deliver quarterly results to Wall Street; a big-box chain putting on small-town airs; an evangelist for healthy eating that sells sausages, ice cream, and beer.
Djokovic, Collins wrote, "can be the idiot, but he is also the savant, a self-aware self-improver fascinated by the workings of the human psyche.
Her ideal combination of "paid worker, parent, community member, self-improver and pleasure-seeker" would indeed be wonderful, and should naturally apply to both sexes, but it sounds more like the achievements of a lifetime than a realistic picture of the years with young children, however evenly the parenting is split.
