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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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These future treatments could harness the advantages of mild mitochondrial uncoupling while avoiding the dangers that plagued earlier approaches.

From Science Daily

“Lookism,” the advantage afforded to the physically attractive, is a widely accepted concept.

From The Wall Street Journal

Despite this advantage, tokamak experiments have long been constrained by an upper density limit.

From Science Daily

The head of the largest U.S. investor in Venezuela is in pole position to take advantage of greater U.S. sway over the country, where it has operated for more than a century.

From The Wall Street Journal

I freely admit that in judging “Best Medicine,” my familiarity with “Doc Martin” puts me at a disadvantage — or an advantage, I suppose, depending on how you look at it.

From Los Angeles Times