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Definitions for advantage
ædˈvæn tɪdʒ, -ˈvɑn-ad·van·tage

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. advantage, vantagenoun

    the quality of having a superior or more favorable position

    "the experience gave him the advantage over me"

  2. advantagenoun

    (tennis) first point scored after deuce

  3. advantage, rewardverb

    benefit resulting from some event or action

    "it turned out to my advantage"; "reaping the rewards of generosity"

  4. advantageverb

    give an advantage to

    "This system advantages the rich"

GCIDE

  1. Advantagenoun

    (Tennis) The first point scored after deuce.

Wiktionary

  1. advantagenoun

    Any condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end.

  2. advantagenoun

    Superiority; mastery; used with of to specify its nature or with over to specify the other party.

  3. advantagenoun

    Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit; as, the advantage of a good constitution.

  4. advantagenoun

    The score where one player wins a point after deuce but needs the next too to carry the game.

  5. advantageverb

    To provide (someone) with an advantage, to give an edge to.

  6. advantageverb

    To do something for one's own benefit; to take advantage of.

  7. Etymology: From avantage, avauntage, from avantage, from avant, from abante. The spelling with d was a mistake, a- being supposed to be from Latin ad (see advance). For sense development, compare foredeal.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. ADVANTAGEnoun

    Etymology: avantage, Fr.

    In the practical prudence of managing such gifts, the laity may have some advantage over the clergy; whose experience is, and ought to be, less of this world than the others. Thomas Sprat.

    All other sorts and sects of men would evidently have the advantage of us, and a much surer title to happiness than we. Francis Atterbury, Sermons. Preface to his.

    The common law hath left them this benefit, whereof they make advantage, and wrest it to their bad purposes. Edmund Spenser, State of Ireland.

    But specially he took advantage of the night for such privy attempts, insomuch that the bruit of his manliness was spread every-where. 2 Macc. viii. 7.

    It is a noble and a sure defiance of a great malice, backed with a great interest; which yet can have no advantage of a man, but from his own expectations of something that is without him. Robert South, Sermons.

    As soon as he was got to Sicily, they sent for him back; designing to take advantage, and prosecute him in the absence of his friends. Jonathan Swift, on the Dissent in Athens and Rome.

    I beseech you,
    If you think fit, or that it may be done,
    Give me advantage of some brief discourse
    With Desdemona alone. William Shakespeare, Othello.

    Like jewels to advantage set,
    Her beauty by the shade does get. Edmund Waller.

    A face, which is over-flushed, appears to advantage in the deepest scarlet, and the darkest complexion is not a little alleviated by a black hood. Joseph Addison, Spectator, №. 265.

    True wit is nature to advantage dress’d,
    What oft was thought, but ne’er so well express’d. Alexander Pope, Essay on Criticism.

    For thou saidst, what advantage will it be unto thee, and what profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin? Job, xxxv. 3.

    Certain it is, that advantage now sits in the room of conscience, and steers all. Robert South, Sermons.

    O my gentle Hubert,
    We owe thee much; within this wall of flesh
    There is a soul counts thee her creditor,
    And with advantage means to pay thy love. William Shakespeare, King John.

    You said, you neither lend nor borrow
    Upon advantage. William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice.

    Much more should the consideration of this pattern arm us with patience against ordinary calamities; especially if we consider his example with this advantage, that though his sufferings were wholly undeserved, and not for himself but for us, yet he bore them patiently. John Tillotson.

  2. To Advantageverb

    Etymology: from the noun.

    Convey what I set down to my lady: it shall advantage more than ever the bearing of letter did. William Shakespeare, Twelfth-Night.

    The great business of the senses being to make us take notice of what hurts or advantages the body, it is wisely ordered by nature, that pain should accompany the reception of several ideas. John Locke.

    We should have pursued some other way, more effectual, for distressing the common enemy, and advantaging ourselves. Jonathan Swift.

    The trial hath endamag’d thee no way,
    Rather more honour left, and more esteem;
    Me naught advantag’d, missing what I aim’d. Par. Regained.

    To ennoble it with the spirit that inspires the Royal Society, were to advantage it in one of the best capacities in which it is improveable. Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica, Pref.

ChatGPT

  1. advantage

    Advantage refers to a condition or circumstance that puts one in a favorable or superior position or gives benefit over others. It can involve resources, skills, capabilities, or situations that improve the chances of success, often resulting in progress, profit, or gain.

  2. advantage

    Advantage is a condition, circumstance, opportunity or position that places someone in a favorable or superior position over others. It refers to a beneficial factor or combination of factors that contributes to one's success, growth or achievement of a particular goal. It can also pertain to having a superiority or dominance in a particular situation or field.

  3. advantage

    Advantage refers to a condition or circumstance that puts one in a favorable or superior position. It could be a benefit, gain, profit, or superiority over others that contributes to success. This could cover a range of aspects like skills, resources, positioning, timing or opportunity.

  4. advantage

    Advantage refers to a condition, position, or circumstance that puts one in a favorable or superior position compared to others. It can also denote a beneficial factor or combination of factors which allows someone to outperform or overcome others or a particular situation. It may potentially refer to a quality, attribute, skill, or resource that someone or something has that increases their chances of success or efficiency.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Advantagenoun

    any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position

  2. Advantagenoun

    superiority; mastery; -- with of or over

  3. Advantagenoun

    superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit; as, the advantage of a good constitution

  4. Advantagenoun

    interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen)

  5. Advantageverb

    to give an advantage to; to further; to promote; to benefit; to profit

  6. Etymology: [OE. avantage, avauntage, F. avantage, fr. avant before. See Advance, and cf. Vantage.]

Wikidata

  1. Advantage

    Advantage is the third album by Clock DVA, released in 1983 through Polydor Records. Singles from it were "Breakdown" and "Resistance".

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Advantage

    ad-vant′āj, n. superiority over another: gain or benefit: at tennis, the point gained by either side after deuce, when both sides stand at an equal score (more commonly Vant′age).—v.t. to benefit or profit.—adjs. Advan′tageable, profitable: convenient (rare); Advantā′geous, of advantage: useful (with to and for).—adv. Advantā′geously.—n. Advantā′geousness.—To have the advantage of any one, to be known by a person without one's self knowing him; To take at advantage, to avail one's self of any opportunity, often implying an unfair sense. [Fr. avantage (It. vantaggio)—Fr. avant, before. See Advance.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. advantage

    That which gives superiority of attack on, or defence against, an enemy; affording means of annoyance or resistance.

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'advantage' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1408

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'advantage' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1930

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'advantage' in Nouns Frequency: #432

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of advantage in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of advantage in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of advantage in a Sentence

  1. Jimmy Weng:

    China is essentially trying to close that gap and it's much more difficult to do that if you have these outsiders coming in and taking advantage of the arbitrage.

  2. Critical Insight Hamilton:

    We need to recognize that there is this huge diversity of people that can actually do... this job very well, as a country, we are not taking very good advantage of the resources that we have.

  3. Diman Bayeez:

    I was very poor. I have schizophrenia and was just diagnosed with blood cancer, and my only daughter wasn't treating me well. I was borrowing money from people for the treatment. That was in June 2014, and she described her situation to a cab driver named Mahmoud in her home city of Kirkuk. He was ISIS and said if I joined, they would treat me well and pay me, she says. I said I would join on one condition : That they make me a suicide bomber and put me out of my misery. Mahmoud was killed fighting in Hawija, and two ISIS members found her number in his phone. She – along with her now ex-husband – were recruited. K.S. says she did not receive any formal training as a combatant, and did not pledge allegiance to ISIS, but admits that she allowed two militants to stay at her home – she now suspects that one was a spy for the Kurdish security forces. But when she was scheduled to put on the suicide vest, she got cold feet. She fled with the idea of seeking asylum in Europe, but the Kurds picked her up before she could leave. I told them I did all these bad things I didn't do because I wanted to be executed. I still wanted to die, K.S. says, saying that she attempted to kill herself in jail, too, with a kitchen knife. Now Iam thankful to God. I know I have committed no crime. Kurdish authorities beg to differ. According to the deputy manager of the correctional center, Zhino Azad, K.S. was deeply entrenched in ISIS, coordinating for their agents and being a guard at their female prisons – possibly filled with captured Yazidi sex slaves. Even her daughter, a lawyer, is terrified of her, Zhino Azad tells FoxNews.com. She is … a little psychotic. That's the type of people ISIS takes advantage of. K.S. does n’t mind prison at all. It is like heaven in this jail, she says. Here, she is safe from ISIS, is fed and receives medical treatment. I get to read the Koran all day and sleep, K.S. says with a bright smile. And I interpret dreams for the other women. A.H., a 35-year-old mother with a small tribal tattoo on the tip of her nose, also spoke to FoxNews.com. She was issued a life sentence, which was reduced to 20 years, then 15, because she has young children -- six of them who are between 5 and 16 years old. They are being looked after by the second of her husband's four wives. He is in jail now too, she says. At first, A.H. maintains that she was working at a civilian hospital that was controlled by ISIS, but that she never treated wounded fighters, but it does n’t take long for her to let her guard down, especially after the prison official with us begins wandering in and out of the room. I went to ISIS Diman Bayeez and said I would do anything, clean hospitals, if they gave me a salary – $ 260 a month, she says. So I was setting up IVs and injections for the fighters. While she admits to having sworn allegiance to the Caliphate, A.H. also claims she was a spy for Iraqi intelligence, and, fearful that ISIS members would find out, she fled to Kurdistan in early 2016. We have problems, especially with the new prisoners, radicalizing others, so we try to keep the terrorists separate. - Diman Bayeez, manager of the Women and Childrens Prison of Erbil She says all evidence of her spying was taken from her at an Iraqi Army checkpoint. Of course I regret [ helping ISIS ]. But my family was hungry. My husband was old, she pleads. I feel betrayed. They took my phone, my proof I was helping them. They all say they aren't guilty.

  4. Brian Benczkowski:

    Fresenius doled out millions of dollars in bribes across the globe to gain an advantage in the medical services industry.

  5. Falcon Murphy:

    Everybody but black mayors understands that a deprived minority, like the Italian or Irish used to be, only advance if they use their political power to their economic advantage.

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