Advantage

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  • noun. A beneficial factor or combination of factors.
  • noun. Benefit or profit; gain.
  • noun. A relatively favorable position; superiority of means.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The first point scored in tennis after deuce.
  • noun. The resulting score.
  • noun. A situation in soccer in which the referee has signaled that a foul has been committed but delays making the call because the fouled team has a more favorable position in play. If the fouled team loses this favorable position, the referee then makes the call.
  • transitive verb. To afford profit or gain to; benefit.
  • idiom. (take advantage of) To put to good use; avail oneself of.
  • idiom. (take advantage of) To make use of for selfish reasons; achieve a selfish goal by exploiting.
  • idiom. (take advantage of) To seduce.
  • idiom. (to advantage) To good effect; favorably.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To benefit; be of service to; yield profit or gain to.
  • To gain ground or win acceptance for; promote or further.
  • To increase, as by interest.
  • Reflexively, to cause to be an advantage to; avail (one's self).
  • To gain an advantage; be benefited.
  • noun. Any state, condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means specially favorable to success, prosperity, interest, reputation, or any desired end; anything that aids, assists, or is of service: as, he had the advantage of a good constitution, of an excellent education; the enemy had the advantage of elevated ground; “the advantages of a close alliance,” Macaulay.
  • noun. Superiority or prevalence: regularly with of or over.
  • noun. Benefit; gain; profit.
  • noun. Usury; interest; increase.
  • noun. A thirteenth article added to a dozen, making what is commonly known as a baker's dozen.
  • noun. In lawn-tennis, the first point gained after deuce. Commonly called vantage. See lawn-tennis.
  • noun. To overreach or impose upon
  • noun. To utilize as a means toward overreaching or imposition.
  • noun. Synonyms and Advantage, Benefit, Utility, Profit, help, vantage-ground, good, service. Advantage is the possession of a good vantage-ground for the attainment of ulterior objects of desire: as, he has the advantage of a good education. Benefit is a more immediate and realized good: as, a chief benefit of exercise is the improvement of health. Utility is usefulness in the practical or material sense: the utility of an education is a small part of the benefit derived from it. Profit signifies gain, with a suggestion of trade or exchange. A man may have good advantages, but derive from them little benefit or profit; even their utility to him may be small.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To give an advantage to; to further; to promote; to benefit; to profit.
  • transitive verb. to avail one's self of.
  • noun. Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit.
  • noun. Superiority; mastery; -- with of or over.
  • noun. Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit.
  • noun. Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen).
  • noun. The first point scored after deuce.
  • noun. vantage ground.
  • noun. to have a personal knowledge of one who does not have a reciprocal knowledge.
  • noun. to profit by; (often used in a bad sense) to overreach, to outwit.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Any condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end.
  • noun. Superiority; mastery; — used with of to specify its nature or with over to specify the other party.
  • noun. Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit; as, the advantage of a good constitution.
  • noun. The score where one player wins a point after deuce but needs the next too to carry the game.
  • noun. The continuation of the game after a foul against the attacking team, because the attacking team are in a advantageous position.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. benefit resulting from some event or action
  • noun. the quality of having a superior or more favorable position
  • verb. give an advantage to
  • noun. (tennis) first point scored after deuce
  • Word Usage
    "It is true that the advantage or benefit of insurance does not consist in adding anything to the wealth of a company, but only consists in drawing from the premiums paid into its treasury by the policy holders generally, to meet each death claim which arises; or can only be called an _advantage of distribution_, or process of collecting aid from the living members, to assist the representatives or dependents of the deceased ones; but it is not the less on this account an advantage worth _same expense_ in securing."
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    benefit  favor  favour  point  prefer  
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    'nor  absum  ago  aspect  benefit  
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