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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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Additionally, Wise’s high-quality infrastructure, price-cutting strategy and relative scale advantage should help the company to reduce its costs and prices to a level that its competitors will struggle to match, they say.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

Talk about advantage Mexico, taking into account altitude and climate and what that might take from the England team.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

Yet Saudi airlines hold a significant advantage over Gulf competitors: a domestic market of approximately 35 million people, by far the region's largest.

From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026

To travel off-peak, she says, book two to eight months in advance: “Take advantage of that Goldilocks window.”

From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026

Madison observed the buying frenzy and complained that unscrupulous speculators “are still exploring the interior & distant parts of the Union in order to take advantage of the holders.”

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis




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