ADVANTAGE

advantage, reward

(noun) benefit resulting from some event or action; “it turned out to my advantage”; “reaping the rewards of generosity”

advantage, vantage

(noun) the quality of having a superior or more favorable position; “the experience gave him the advantage over me”

advantage

(noun) (tennis) first point scored after deuce

advantage

(verb) give an advantage to; “This system advantages the rich”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

advantage (countable and uncountable, plural advantages)

(countable) Any condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end.

(obsolete) Superiority; mastery; — used with of to specify its nature or with over to specify the other party.

(countable, uncountable) Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit

(tennis) The score where one player wins a point after deuce but needs the next to carry the game.

(soccer) The continuation of the game after a foul against the attacking team, because the attacking team are in an advantageous position.

Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen).

Synonyms

• foredeal, benefit, value, edge

• vantage

Antonyms

• disadvantage, drawback

Verb

advantage (third-person singular simple present advantages, present participle advantaging, simple past and past participle advantaged)

(transitive) to provide (someone) with an advantage, to give an edge to [from 15th c.]

(reflexive) to do something for one's own benefit; to take advantage of [from 16th c.]

Usage notes

• Some authorities object to the use of advantage as a verb meaning "to provide with an advantage".

Synonyms

• favor, favorise

• benefit

Source: Wiktionary

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Ad*van"tage, n. Etym: [OE. avantage, avauntage, F. avantage, fr. avant before. See Advance, and cf. Vantage.]

1. Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position. Give me advantage of some brief discourse. Shak. The advantages of a close alliance. Macaulay.

2. Superiority; mastery; -- with of or over. Lest Satan should get an advantage of us. 2 Cor. ii. 11.

3. Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit; as, the advantage of a good constitution.

4. Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen). [Obs.] And with advantage means to pay thy love. Shak. Advantage ground, vantage ground. [R.] Clarendon.

– To have the advantage of (any one), to have a personal knowledge of one who does not have a reciprocal knowledge. "You have the advantage of me; I don't remember ever to have had the honor." Sheridan.

– To take advantage of, to profit by; (often used in a bad sense) to overreach, to outwit.

Syn.

– Advantage, Advantageous, Benefit, Beneficial. We speak of a thing as a benefit, or as beneficial, when it is simply productive of good; as, the benefits of early discipline; the beneficial effects of adversity. We speak of a thing as an advantage, or as advantageous, when it affords us the means of getting forward, and places us on a "vantage ground" for further effort. Hence, there is a difference between the benefits and the advantages of early education; between a beneficial and an advantageous investment of money.

Ad*van"tage, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Advantaged; p. pr. & vb. n. Advantaging.] Etym: [F. avantager, fr. avantage. See Advance.]

Definition: To give an advantage to; to further; to promote; to benefit; to profit. The truth is, the archbishop's own stiffness and averseness to comply with the court designs, advantaged his adversaries against him. Fuller. What is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away Luke ix. 25. To advantage one's self of, to avail one's self of. [Obs.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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