Word Finder - advantage

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

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The enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position.

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

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Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit

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Having the faster car is of little advantage.

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

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The continuation of the game after a foul against the attacking team, because the attacking team are in an advantageous position.

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

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

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

We took full advantage of our opportunity.

Josh had the advantage of size, but Alex was faster.

Did he arrange to have Alex out of the way, or was he simply taking advantage of the situation?

How could he take advantage of her that way?

I don't know what I was thinking of, taking advantage of you that way.

He could have taken advantage of the moment.

The Others took advantage of you.

That's to their advantage too.

Let's hope not because he'll try to take advantage of that and do his deeds where you can't pin-point the abduction exactly.

If he was going to take advantage of her, he certainly would have done it before now.

Katie accused her of allowing Alex to make decisions because she had no confidence in herself – and that Alex was taking advantage of her because he had a controlling personality.

And he's using that knowledge to his advantage... better disguises, changing his MO, carefully executing his abductions.

We have taken the land advantage, which is all that matters.

The teachers at the Wright-Humason School were always planning how they might give the pupils every advantage that those who hear enjoy--how they might make much of few tendencies and passive memories in the cases of the little ones--and lead them out of the cramping circumstances in which their lives were set.

It is as if I were glad of a chance to take advantage of his being alone and despondent!

It'll take me a few days to position myself to take advantage of it.

But it's not as if I took advantage of Jen— it was a mistake.

I.ll admit you have the advantage here.

With her, money was neither an advantage nor a handicap.

She needed to put more effort into taking advantage of life while she could.

I can't picture him fighting or picking on anyone, but if I closely consider the signs, I can see his tendency to take advantage of others, if only in a self-serving way.

Some nights, dreams took her on a stealthy walk down the path, taking advantage of every bush for cover.

This appeared so unexpectedly that they were unprepared to take advantage of it at first, and allowed the rocky wall to swing around again before they had decided to pass over.

Also, as we are masters of Ulm, we cannot be deprived of the advantage of commanding both sides of the Danube, so that should the enemy not cross the Lech, we can cross the Danube, throw ourselves on his line of communications, recross the river lower down, and frustrate his intention should he try to direct his whole force against our faithful ally.

It would be easier to walk, but he wanted the advantage of height and bulk to work on his side.

Darkyn said my weakness is being taken advantage of by others.

They will take advantage of the freedom from financial want that the modern age gives them and will focus on improving themselves and the world they live in.

Might give you an advantage with him if you're willing to play the seduction game.

Effie, you're far too intelligent to not know Claire is constantly taking advantage of you.

Later the same morning, Dean took advantage of the cold but clear day for a little biking.

Gladys, because I saw the venom in her eyes after Shipton took advantage of her.

I thought, however, that the advantage she would derive would not repay her for the time and labour that such an experiment would cost.

Take advantage of a raw bar featuring oysters, caviar and mussels.

We can always tell each other later if it's to our advantage to do so, but we can't just 'forget' once we know it.

He didn't doubt that if it were to her advantage to do so, she'd have no compunction in involving him, however unfairly.

Falckenstein was not slow to take advantage.

I had this advantage, at least, in my mode of life, over those who were obliged to look abroad for amusement, to society and the theatre, that my life itself was become my amusement and never ceased to be novel.

He'd never thought of being locked out of the underworld as an advantage, but the soul Darkyn wanted wasn't likely one of those in the lakes on the mortal world.

He fell in behind them, taking advantage of the quieter air in their wake and kept pace with them.

Lots of people, wealthy or not, would take advantage of a situation like that.

The Galapagos archipelago possesses a rare advantage from its isolated situation, and from the fact that its history has never been interfered with by any aborigines of the human race.

The great advantage of the tube anemometer lies in the fact that the exposed part can be mounted on a high pole, and requires no oiling or attention for years; and the registering part can be placed in any convenient position, no matter how far from the external part.

When they are worked from a power station the great advantage is gained that the same plant which drives them can be used for many other purposes, such as working machine tools and supplying current for lighting.

The hydraulic crane has a great advantage in possessing an almost ideal brake, for by simply throttling the exhaust from the lifting cylinder the speed of descent can be regulated within very wide limits and with perfect safety.

In first cost the hydraulic crane has the advantage, but the power mains are much less expensive and more convenient to arrange in the electric crane.

As it uses the Baudot telegraph alphabet it has an advantage in theory over the Wheatstone using the Morse alphabet in regard to the speed that can be obtained on a long telegraph line in the ratio of eight to five, and this theoretical advantage is more or less realized in practice.

Though deserted by the Khazars, with whom he had made an alliance upon entering into Pontus, he gained a decisive advantage by a brilliant march across the Armenian highlands into the Tigris plain, and a hard-fought victory over Chosroes' general, Shahrbaraz, in which Heraclius distinguished himself by his personal bravery.

I wish to say here that I have not had this advantage since in any of my examinations.

My friends thought we might have one or two pupils in our own home, thereby securing to me the advantage of being helpful to others without any of the disadvantages of a large school.

Cato says, the master of a family (patremfamilias) must have in his rustic villa "cellam oleariam, vinariam, dolia multa, uti lubeat caritatem expectare, et rei, et virtuti, et gloriae erit," that is, "an oil and wine cellar, many casks, so that it may be pleasant to expect hard times; it will be for his advantage, and virtue, and glory."