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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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Activist investors who want to force changes at underperforming closed-end funds take advantage of this rule by buying up a bunch of shares and then trying to change how the fund is run.

From Slate • Jun. 11, 2026

“Whether this becomes a competitive advantage and not just a way to reduce working capital remains to be seen.”

From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026

I feel like he may be taking advantage of us because we don’t have much knowledge about them.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026

Even when the Knicks rallied in the second half, the Spurs still held a 20-point advantage with a little more than nine minutes left in the game.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

Any show of effort by the twins was as rare as a great comet, and she intended to take advantage.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood




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