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adjective

providing an advantage; furnishing convenience or opportunity; favorable; profitable; useful; beneficial: an advantageous position; an advantageous treaty.

Origin:
1590–1600; advantage + -ous; compare French avantageux, Italian avantaggioso

Related forms

ad·van·ta·geous·ly, adverb

ad·van·ta·geous·ness, noun

non·ad·van·ta·geous, adjective

non·ad·van·ta·geous·ly, adverb

non·ad·van·ta·geous·ness, noun

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qua·si-ad·van·ta·geous, adjective

qua·si-ad·van·ta·geous·ly, adverb

un·ad·van·ta·geous, adjective

un·ad·van·ta·geous·ly, adverb

un·ad·van·ta·geous·ness, noun

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Example Sentences

Most cooperatives find it advantageous to carry a mortgage because of the tax benefits it provides for shareholders.

It was simply not a financially advantageous decision.

In this case, an advantageous gene transfer might be preserved.

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Most cooperatives find it advantageous to carry a mortgage because of the tax benefits it provides for shareholders.

It was simply not a financially advantageous decision.

In this case, an advantageous gene transfer might be preserved.

But some mutations are advantageous rather than adverse.

Nowadays more and more people refused to choose replica watches as they find it rather advantageous.

No argument is needed to show that the railroads offer opportunities for advantageous use of a practical wireless system.

At that point it might have been advantageous to purchase a new car.

All of these are considered to be advantageous in the light of recent events.

Another thing is that sheer brain power is not all that advantageous in evolution.

American toy manufacturers are now placed in a much more advantageous position than at any time during the present year.

We have the possibility of a renovation coming soon and it would be advantageous to green the library in the process.

Both parties' candidates were expected to raise such huge sums that they would find it advantageous to forgo the subsidy.

But this is one of the largest studies to show that giving all critically ill patients antibiotics may be advantageous as well.

It could also seek to buy companies in distressed countries on advantageous terms.

Some may find it advantageous to buy new data-processing systems rather than to fix their existing ones.

It was evolutionarily advantageous for schizophrenics to see monsters and ghosts.

Since the dawn of pre-history, humans have moved from less advantageous to more advantageous locations.

It's revealing that so many students select programs which are not economically advantageous.

Traditional marriage is threatened because it is no longer advantageous for either adult, which is a shame for the kids.

That's not the kind of motivation that is advantageous to participation economically.

One can only imagine how advantageous a pocket sized scanner.

Companion planting is also advantageous in deterring pests, promoting symbiotic nitrogen.

For these instances, it is advantageous to have a plastic material that would biodegrade when exposed to environments.

Often it would be advantageous to be able to snap the camera and to look at the picture immediately….

Countries change their ways if it becomes clear that this is advantageous to them.

Some feel that this is more advantageous to the candidate because you are not offically denied.

The reason behind this is an obvious evolutionary advantageous trait too.

From a developer perspective, it's been economically advantageous to program for the.

It seems that there is something advantageous in the megalomania that is his defining lifelong trait.

Much depends on when you begin saving, since long-term horizons are hugely advantageous in investing.

Risko finds their relationship particularly advantageous in business meetings.

The rates are lower, but if you are in a high tax bracket, it is sometimes advantageous.

Glueck's study did not necessarily destroy the hypothesis that a low-cholesterol diet in childhood might be advantageous.

If you give people a situation in which lying is advantageous and the perceived risk of detection is low, they will lie.

If you have pertinent medical information that could be advantageous to rescuers.

There is, however, an even more advantageous tax strategy that he missed out on entirely.

He is going to work with them whenever he finds it advantageous.

It is also advantageous for the system because it now has one more ready made well educated, obedient slave at its disposal.

But those seeds may contain traits that will prove advantageous in another place or another time.

I've heard inhaling volcanic fumes works if one is in a suitably advantageous geographic location.

There are, of course,many cases where forum shopping has proved highly advantageous for one party.

It does seem advantageous to continue developing and structuring these socio-economic magnets.

If there is a shortage of males in the society, it would be advantageous to have female-female bonding.

It is advantageous to all in a society that the population be educated as much as.

Each vaccine has its advocates, and researchers say it is advantageous to have several candidates on the horizon.

Mere intelligence or advantageous birth cannot explain it.

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World English Dictionary

advantageous (ˌædvənˈteɪdʒəs)

—*adj*
	producing advantage

advan'tageously

—*adv*

advan'tageousness

—n

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Word Origin & History

advantageous

c.1600, from Fr. avantageux, from avantage (see advantage).

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