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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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Ian Fujiyama, the head of Carlyle’s aerospace, defense and government practice, said his firm took equity in Castelion to take advantage of the company’s promise to design and manufacture weaponry on a tight timeline.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

Baleba's ability to carry the ball over large distances makes him a good player to take advantage of these situations.

From BBC Aug. 19, 2026

Xu said that in the L.A. area, the numbers suggest the advantage of renting, at least for smaller homes, could be increasing.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 19, 2026

Other factors include multipliers for even-strength goals, as opposed to those scored when the team has a power-play advantage while a player on the other team sits in the penalty box.

From MarketWatch Aug. 18, 2026

Nor did his insider knowledge of interest rates ever tempt him to take personal advantage: “But you remember the saying with regard to Caesar’s Wife,” he wrote to Henry Lee.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

Even with the advantages into which they were born, their career was not easily won; it was earned.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 17, 2026

Climate change has had some advantages for Germany's winegrowers over the years, allowing them to experiment with grape varieties better suited to warmer climes and making cultivation possible in new areas.

From Barron's Aug. 16, 2026

Rather than carefully comparing the advantages and disadvantages of every available option, people may rely on memories of what they chose previously.

From Science Daily Aug. 13, 2026

According to Bray, Clariant has two advantages over the diversified chemicals sector.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

As it turned out, being the Agency's first female officer in Moscow had its advantages: The KGB never caught on to her real position in the CIA.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

Counterintuitively, Ross said, smaller independent grocers are actually advantaged in the short term, as smaller stores tend to play in more localized markets than their major chain competitors.

From Salon Apr. 24, 2026

“Sun Belt states are experiencing markets with the most advantaged buyers, while markets in the Northeast and Midwest frequently remain advantaged toward sellers.”

From MarketWatch Mar. 12, 2026

Waste Management is the most strategically advantaged company in North American waste disposal.

From Barron's Jan. 16, 2026

LA28 chief Allison Katz-Mayfield called the random ticket-drawing process "the fairest way to ensure that the broadest number of people can get access to tickets and that no one is advantaged or disadvantaged".

From BBC Jan. 14, 2026

We lived well, our days were mostly sunny, and I know that my parents were stoically undeceived by the objectively equivocal, contingent nature of the advantaged life they gave me and my siblings.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

“We urgently need a smart export-control strategy that applies robust export controls to deny our adversaries access to advanced technology, while advantaging U.S. companies,” McGuire wrote.

From MarketWatch Jun. 13, 2026

The administration wants to gain visibility into frontier capabilities without slowing American labs and advantaging China.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 9, 2026

Further advantaging them might hamstring the promising open-source A.I. movement—a crucial area of competition—to the point of obsolescence.

From Slate Nov. 14, 2023

Smith agreed, pointing out laws advantaging employers at the expense of workers when it came to organizing into early forms of unions.

From The Guardian Dec. 14, 2019

With the closing years of the second decade of the mill growth, most of these advantaging circumstances were fading before the increase of competition.

From The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South by Broadus Mitchell




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