advantage
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[edit] Etymology
From Middle English avantage, avauntage, from Old French avantage, from avant (“‘before’”), from Mediaeval Latin abante.
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- IPA: /ədˈvæn.tɪʤ/
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advantage (plural advantages)
- Any condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end.
- Superiority; mastery; — used with of to specify its nature or with over to specify the other party.
- The enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position.
- Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit; as, the advantage of a good constitution.
- (tennis) The score where one player wins a point after deuce but needs the next too to carry the game.
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We most commonly say take advantage, but we can also have an advantage.
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any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success
superiority; mastery
superiority of state, or that which gives it
the score where one player wins a point after deuce
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[edit] Verb
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to advantage (third-person singular simple present advantages, present participle advantaging, simple past and past participle advantaged)
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- Some authorities object to the use of advantage as a verb meaning "to provide with an advantage".
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- Bulgarian: подпомагам , благоприятствам
- Dutch: begunstigen, bevoordelen
- French: avantager, favoriser
[edit] References
- advantage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
