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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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Emilie Feldman, a management professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, said spinning off a business unit is more complicated than selling one, but can offer tax advantages.

From The Wall Street Journal

David Widawsky, director of the World Resources Institute, called the move a “strategic blunder that gives away American advantage for nothing in return.”

From Los Angeles Times

Any small advantage, from the shape of new components to the companies in global supply chains, is a source of potential leverage.

From BBC

With challengers unable to reach voters, and citizen groups unable to speak, the advantages of incumbent politicians, who can command media attention without paid advertising, would have grown even greater.

From The Wall Street Journal

For months, administration officials have talked up saturated fat’s nutritional advantages.

From The Wall Street Journal