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advantage

[ad-van-tij, -vahn-] / ædˈvæn tɪdʒ, -ˈvɑn- /


Usage

What are other ways to say advantage? Advantage refers to anything that places one in an improved position, especially in coping with competition or difficulties: It is to one's advantage to have traveled widely. Benefit refers to anything that promotes the welfare or improves the state of a person or group: a benefit to society. Profit refers to any valuable, useful, or helpful gain: to one’s intellectual profit.

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Activist investors who want to force changes at underperforming closed-end funds take advantage of this rule by buying up a bunch of shares and then trying to change how the fund is run.

From Slate • Jun. 11, 2026

Even when the Knicks rallied in the second half, the Spurs still held a 20-point advantage with a little more than nine minutes left in the game.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

Detecting such subtle atmospheric differences required taking advantage of a common characteristic of close-orbiting gas giants.

From Science Daily • Jun. 11, 2026

"There's something stirring in the waters, and he sees that and he wants to take advantage of it," she said.

From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026

Good soldier, I thought, taking advantage of the element of surprise.

From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen




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