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ad⋅van⋅tage

[ad-van-tij, -vahn-]

noun, verb, -taged, -taging.

–noun

1.	any state, circumstance, opportunity, or means specially favorable to success, interest, or any desired end: the advantage of a good education.

2.	benefit; gain; profit: It will be to his advantage to learn Chinese before going to China.

3.	superiority or ascendancy (often fol. by over or of): His height gave him an advantage over his opponent.

4.	a position of superiority (often fol. by over or of): their advantage in experienced players.

5.	Tennis. the first point scored after deuce.

–verb (used with object)

6.	to be of service to; yield profit or gain to; benefit.

7.	to cause to advance; further; promote: Such action will advantage our cause.

8.	to prove beneficial to; profit: It would advantage him to work harder.

—Idioms

9.	have the advantage of, to be in a superior or advantageous position; possess an advantage over: By virtue of independent wealth, he has the advantage of his opponents.

10.

take advantage of,

a.	to make use of for gain: to take advantage of an opportunity.

b.	to impose upon, esp. unfairly, as by exploiting a weakness: to take advantage of someone.

11.	to advantage, to good effect; advantageously: The paintings were arranged to advantage on one wall.

Origin:
1300–50; ME ava(u)ntage < AF, OF avantage, equiv. to avant before (see advance ) + -age -age; for ad- see advance

Synonyms:
2. Advantage, benefit, profit all mean something that is of use or value. Advantage is anything that places one in an improved position, esp. in coping with competition or difficulties: It is to one's advantage to have traveled widely. Benefit is anything that promotes the welfare or improves the state of a person or group: a benefit to society. Profit is any valuable, useful, or helpful gain: profit from trade or experience. 6. serve, avail, help, aid.

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ad·van·tage (ād-vān'tĭj)

A beneficial factor or combination of factors.
Benefit or profit; gain: It is to your advantage to invest wisely.
A relatively favorable position; superiority of means: A better education gave us the advantage.
Sports
1. The first point scored in tennis after deuce.
2. The resulting score.

tr.v. ad·van·taged, ad·van·tag·ing, ad·van·tag·es
To afford profit or gain to; benefit.

[Middle English avantage, from Old French, from avant, before, from Latin abante, from before; see advance.]

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Advantage

Ad*van"tage\ (?; 61, 48), n. [OE. avantage, avauntage, F. avantage, fr. avant before. See Advance, and cf. Vantage.]

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. --Shak.

The advantages of a close alliance. --Macaulay.

2. Superiority; mastery; -- with of or over.

Lest Satan should get an advantage of us. --2 Cor. ii. 11.

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. --Shak.

Advantage ground, vantage ground. [R.] --Clarendon.

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." --Sheridan.

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

Syn: Advantage, Advantageous, Benefit, Beneficial.

Usage: 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.

Advantage

Ad*van"tage\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Advantaged; p. pr. & vb. n. Advantaging.] [F. avantager, fr. avantage. See Advance.] 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. --Fuller.

What is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away? --Luke ix. 25.

To advantage one's self of, to avail one's self of. [Obs.]

Language Translation for : advantage

Spanish: ventaja,

German: der Vorteil,

Japanese: 利点

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advantage

1330, "position of being in advance of another," from O.Fr. avantage, from avant "before," probably via an unrecorded L.L. *abantaticum, from L. abante (see advance). The -d- is a 16c. intrusion on the analogy of Latin ad- words. Meaning "a favoring circumstance" (the opposite of disadvantage) is from 1483. Tennis score sense is from 1641, first recorded in writings of John Milton, of all people. Phrase to take advantage of is first attested 1393.

advantage

see get the advantage of; show to advantage; take advantage of; to advantage.

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