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advantage
/ædˈvæntɪdʒ/
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What does advantage mean?
noun
- Any condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable or chance to success, or to any desired end.
- Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit
- The score where one player wins a point after deuce but needs the next to carry the game.
More meanings (5)
noun
- The continuation of the game after a foul against the attacking team, because the attacking team are in an advantageous position.
- Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen).
- (obsolete) Superiority; mastery; — used with of to specify its nature or with over to specify the other party.
verb
- to provide (someone) with an advantage, to give an edge to
- to do something for one's own benefit; to take advantage of
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IPA pronunciation
/ædˈvæntɪdʒ/
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Here also we should preserve by Union, an advantage which nature holds out to us, and which would be relinquished by separation.
Despite government efforts at reform and large-scale foreign assistance, the economy still is unable to take advantage of its sizable natural resources.
More book examples (3)
People who could use words in that confident way, and who spoke them elegantly, had a great advantage in life, she reflected.
They took advantage of this fact to explain to them that this distance was obtained by measuring the parallax of the moon.
When she started for Italy, he begs her to take advantage of so good an opportunity for seeing such a beautiful country.