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advantage
v. help, assist; promote; be beneficial to; give an advantage to
 
n. benefit; profit; utility, avail


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Advantage
Advantage may refer to:A beneficial factor or combination of factors.In tennis, advantage is when one player wins a point from a deuce and needs one more point to win the game. (See Tennis terminology#A)In association football (soccer), advantage is a clause that states that the referee should allow play to continue when the team against which an offence has been committed will benefit from having play continue. (See Football (soccer) - Advantage)A breakfast cereal. (See List of breakfast cereals)The NES Advantage: an arcade modeled joystick for the Nintendo Entertainment SystemThe Advantage, an indie rock band covering old Nintendo musicThe Gillig Advantage, a name given to Gillig's low-floor transit bus.In veterinary medicine, Advantage is a brand name for imidacloprid, a flea-poison for pets.Advantage Rent A Car - car rentalAdvantage Database Server, a database product from Sybase iAnywhere Solutions
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advantage
Noun
1. the quality of having a superior or more favorable position; "the experience gave him the advantage over me"
(synonym) vantage
(antonym) disadvantage
(hypernym) asset, plus
(hyponym) favor, favour
2. first point scored after deuce
(hypernym) point
(part-holonym) tennis, lawn tennis
3. benefit resulting from some event or action; "it turned out to my advantage"; "reaping the rewards of generosity"
(synonym) reward
(hypernym) benefit, welfare
Verb
1. give an advantage to; "This system advantages the rich"
(antonym) disadvantage, disfavor, disfavour
(hypernym) prefer, favor, favour
(derivation) reward


Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)Download this dictionary
Advantage
(v. t.)
To give an advantage to; to further; to promote; to benefit; to profit.
  
 
(n.)
Superiority; mastery; -- with of or over.
  
 
(n.)
Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit; as, the advantage of a good constitution.
  
 
(n.)
Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen).
  
 
(n.)
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.
  

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