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/ædvˈæntɪdʒ/ /ədvˈæntɪdʒ/ /ædvˈænɪdʒ/ /ədvˈænədʒ/ Listen

noun

Advantage n.

1.

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. "Give me advantage of some brief discourse." "The advantages of a close alliance."

2.

Superiority; mastery; with of or over. "Lest Satan should get an advantage of us."

3.

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

4.

Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen). (Obs.) "And with advantage means to pay thy love."

5.

(Tennis) The first point scored after deuce.

Advantage ground, vantage ground. (R.)

To have the advantage of (any one), to have a personal knowledge of one who does not have a reciprocal knowledge. "You have the advantage of me; I don't remember ever to have had the honor."

To take advantage of, to profit by; (often used in a bad sense) to overreach, to outwit.

Synonyms: Advantage, Advantageous, Benefit, Beneficial. We speak of a thing as a benefit, or as beneficial, when it is simply productive of good; as, the benefits of early discipline; the beneficial effects of adversity. We speak of a thing as an advantage, or as advantageous, when it affords us the means of getting forward, and places us on a "vantage ground" for further effort. Hence, there is a difference between the benefits and the advantages of early education; between a beneficial and an advantageous investment of money.

verb

Advantage v. t. (past & past part. advantaged; pres. part. advantaging) To give an advantage to; to further; to promote; to benefit; to profit. "The truth is, the archbishop's own stiffness and averseness to comply with the court designs, advantaged his adversaries against him." "What is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?"

To advantage one's self of, to avail one's self of. (Obs.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... which lay on the Tennessee River and was an important strategical point. The two armies met on Chickamauga Creek, twelve miles south of Chattanooga. All through the first day's battle, September 19th, there was hot fighting—charges and countercharges—but no decisive advantage fell to either side. During the night Bragg was reenforced by Longstreet's corps from Virginia, and he opened the next day's fight with an assault upon the Union left. Brigades were moved from the centre to support the ...

— History of the United States, Volume 4 • E. Benjamin Andrews

... innovations by patent, he was most willing to explain them with care to other engineers and to have others profit by his improvements; and several of the mechanical novelties of his bridge are now in the commonest use, and have been taken advantage of even in such famous structures ...

— James B. Eads • Louis How

... However, all told, the attacks were never very vicious. He had never been in public life until after the war when he was named deputy and joined the Assemblee Nationale at Bordeaux—which was an immense advantage to him. He had never served any other government, and was therefore perfectly independent and was bound by no family traditions or old friendships—didn't mind the opposition papers at all—not even the caricatures. Some of them were very funny. There was one very like him, sitting ...

— My First Years As A Frenchwoman, 1876-1879 • Mary King Waddington

... war vessels, and the difficulty to keep together such a fleet, always in danger of hostile attack, all combined to lengthen the voyage to 100 days, which was even at that time very rare, and now could be of incalculable advantage to the cause of the Americans. With an unfavorable wind the fleet started; the eyes of everybody were directed to the green coast and the undulating hilly background. During the night the sharp glow of the Halifax lighthouse accompanied the ...

— The Voyage of The First Hessian Army from Portsmouth to New York, 1776 • Albert Pfister

... when the law of copyright has been under discussion. But as I am, on full consideration, satisfied that the measure before us will, if adopted, inflict grievous injury on the public, without conferring any compensating advantage on men of letters, I think it my duty to avow that opinion ...

— The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, Vol. 4 (of 4) - Lord Macaulay's Speeches • Thomas Babington Macaulay

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