Definitions for advantage

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advantage ad·van·tage

Spelling: [ad-van-tij, -vahn-]

IPA: /ædˈvæn tɪdʒ, -ˈvɑn-/

Advantage is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 228 anagrams from letters in advantage (aaadegntv).

Definitions for advantage

noun

1. any state, circumstance, opportunity, or means specially favorable to success, interest, or any desired end:
2. benefit; gain; profit:
3. superiority or ascendancy (often followed by over or of):
4. a position of superiority (often followed by over or of):
5. Tennis. the first point scored after deuce.

Idioms

1. have the advantage of, to be in a superior or advantageous position; possess an advantage over:
2. take advantage of, to make use of for gain: to impose upon, especially unfairly, as by exploiting a weakness:
3. to advantage, to good effect; advantageously:

verb (used with object)

1. to be of service to; yield profit or gain to; benefit.
2. to cause to advance; further; promote:
3. to prove beneficial to; profit:

Origin of advantage

1300-50; Middle English ava(u)ntage Anglo-French, Old French avantage, equivalent to avant before (see advance) + -age -age; for ad- see

Examples for advantage

By 2014, that advantage still existed but was statistically meaningless: 47 percent Republican, 44 percent Democratic.

In a remote location with little means for economic development, the Brogpas have cultivating this identity to their advantage.

As to the advantage of birth, that is of his side, above any man who has been found out for me.

Every advantage of education is to be procured by the same means.

You also say that you think your condition gave you an advantage in some ways.

Tranter well knew his advantage and lost no time in putting it to use.

That contrasts with a 49 to 48 percent advantage for Democrats in the other 37 states.

It has the advantage over other puddings in that it is inexpensive.

(a) What is the advantage of serving milk or cream with cereals?

“People feel that these crowded areas play to their advantage—it provides this sense of a cover,” he said.