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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.

Example Sentences

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US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has appeared to suggest that there could be a tactical advantage to the apparent fluidity.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

“The advantage of Chinese humanoid startups is the access to their broad supply chain,” Kei Onishi, chairman of Yamaha Motor Ventures, a Silicon Valley-based unit of the Japanese motorcycle maker, said last year.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Notre Dame twice had bases-loaded situations but failed to take advantage, including hitting into a double play in the bottom of the sixth.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2026

Foundayo, available this month, offers an advantage over Novo Nordisk’s oral Wegovy by lacking dietary restrictions.

From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026

Alphonse Bertillon believed he’d already solved the problem of identification with the Bertillon system, which had the advantage of being named after himself.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day