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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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The cooling kit is not mandatory but any driver who chooses not to use it has to carry 5kg of ballast in their car to ensure he does not have a competitive advantage.

From BBC • Jun. 25, 2026

Her lawyers argued the Supreme Court needed to hear the case so Murrin and millions of people like her wouldn’t be blindsided by the IRS years after tax preparers took advantage of them.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 25, 2026

Johnson said she believes Agility will have an advantage by going public before other stand-alone humanoid robotics businesses, because of pent-up demand from individual investors looking to put dollars into the industry.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 24, 2026

In laboratory experiments involving influenza-infected cells, they found that viruses could take advantage of this natural cleanup mechanism.

From Science Daily • Jun. 24, 2026

Then the men and dogs could take advantage of the wide, flat floes to get some exercise.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong




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