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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 floor I’d fall to was higher than I’d imagined, because when you start young, even your failures compound into advantages that last decades.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Over the last couple of years, our performance advantage over our competition has actually increased,” Shaw said.

From The Wall Street Journal

Rather than simply betting that certain commodity prices will rise, this strategy takes advantage of periods when current spot prices are high and demand is expected to decline later.

From MarketWatch

Defense stocks have the potential to become structural assets in an investment portfolio — and Europe may be the best place to take advantage, according to a strategist at Citigroup.

From MarketWatch

For example, they might create a “back door” that an external adversary could take advantage of, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal