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advantaged

[ ad-van-tijd ]

adjective

  1. having greater resources or better skills, education, facilities, etc.:

    She is more advantaged than her cousin.

  2. having sufficient or abundant income, natural resources, etc.; affluent:

    the advantaged nations.



noun

, (used with a plural verb)
  1. Usually the advantaged. advantaged people collectively:

    a luxury cruise that only the advantaged could afford.

advantaged

/ ədˈvɑːntɪdʒd /

adjective

  1. in a superior social or economic position


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Other Words From

  • un·ad·van·taged adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of advantaged1

First recorded in 1595–1605; advantage + -ed 3

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Example Sentences

Thiel wouldn’t owe any tax up front and no early withdrawal penalties would apply, but he’d be required to move billions out of the tax-advantaged account.

The number of multimillion-dollar individual retirement accounts has soared in the past decade, as more wealthy Americans use the tax-advantaged vehicles to shield fortunes from income taxes, according to new data released by Congress today.

Pensco was a small firm that allowed its customers to put nearly any investment they wanted into a tax-advantaged retirement account.

An option for the United States would be tax-advantaged “lifelong learning and training accounts,” funded by individual contributions matched in part by government funds.

They would also be able to make tax-advantaged contributions to their accounts.

Of course, CNN is advantaged by being in nearly 30 million more households than FBN.

The unions would have gone nuclear: tax-advantaged health benefits are one of their selling points for members.

But what's clear is that, over the past decade, this aspect of the Electoral College has advantaged Democrats.

Americans take a lot of their compensation in the form of tax-advantaged benefits, particularly health care costs.

In other words, are the tax advantages of a whole life policy better than investing in a non-tax-advantaged manner?

For what shall it profit a man, what is a man advantaged, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

I have been advantaged thereby before now, and did not know but by speaking no truth, I might have reaped the same benefit now.

By thine aid is he advantaged, and made strong by thy valour and prowess: Bitterest was that Battle in which thou didst engage.

He took some part in the Civil War, but “he was very often of both parties, and never advantaged either.”

Cookworthy died in 1780, not in any way advantaged by his discovery.

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