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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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One advantage of that system would be the ability of the full council to remove a leader, something that councils cannot do with an elected mayor.

From BBC Sep. 17, 2026

A Public Policy Institute of California survey released earlier this week showed Becerra with a 22-point lead over Hilton, driven by Democrats’ large voter registration advantage.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 17, 2026

Huawei is taking advantage of its expertise in telecommunications equipment.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 17, 2026

That offers a clear opening for others to act in unpredictable ways to take advantage of the situation.

From Salon Sep. 17, 2026

At the moment she clearly had the advantage over her brothers, and she readied herself to pounce.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

The tax code provides some advantages to homeowners, and a mortgage allows buyers to own a large asset with a relatively small initial investment.

From MarketWatch Sep. 16, 2026

However, as distance increases, those physical advantages appear to become less relevant and the gap starts to narrow.

From BBC Sep. 16, 2026

“While Medacta’s competitive advantages remain intact, sustaining its historical growth rates will become increasingly challenging as the business scales,” Deutsche Bank says.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

Children raised in two-parent families in which one parent is employed full time already have a host of advantages, while children raised in low-income single-parent households are more likely to face significant challenges.

From Slate Sep. 14, 2026

Here, we must turn to archaeology for evidence of the technological, political, and agricultural advantages that some Asians evidently gained over other Asians.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Several contributors felt parents were largely responsible for finding information themselves, with one DfE study, external showing requests to defer school entry were more common among families from more advantaged backgrounds.

From BBC Aug. 23, 2026

“Our operations team demonstrated why they are the best in the business, putting us in an advantaged position to bring forward material value on our differentiated asset base.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 3, 2026

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

I wanted students more aware of their differences from persons less advantaged.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

“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

It is self-love: worshipping thyself, comforting thyself, advantaging thyself, and regarding all others as either toys or slaves for that great idol, thyself.

From In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers by M. (Madelaine) Irwin




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