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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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The Lakers finished the regular season with three consecutive wins to hang on to home-court advantage in the first round.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2026

By contrast, reshoring of apparel and furniture is a fight against economic gravity, namely the massive labor cost advantage in other countries.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026

However, “it’s going to take time, and threat actors are going to take advantage of that process while we’re on it,” he said.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 18, 2026

Tickner acknowledges that school holidays are "certainly an advantage when it comes to childcare", but says work in term-time can get so intense "you need the holiday time to reset".

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

Tamara and Raya had the advantage of height and the sun behind them, which would dazzle the enemy pilots if they looked in their direction.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein




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