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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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But that was all the U.S. would get in a first period in which it built a 13-2 shot advantage.

From Los Angeles Times

Kyiv, lacking funding and access to enough sophisticated weapons, has turned to balloons as an inexpensive fallback option that comes with an asymmetric advantage in the form of local wind patterns.

From The Wall Street Journal

Despite Russian air superiority and numerical advantages, Ukrainian forces and local volunteers slowed, halted and ultimately rolled back Russia’s assault on the capital.

From The Wall Street Journal

An aggressive start was rewarded with an early 2-0 advantage and the British rink maintained that to lead 3-2 at the break.

From BBC

But NGOs say many agencies flout the rules, taking advantage of people desperate to work abroad.

From Barron's