Definition of Advantage

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Advantage

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.

Superiority; mastery; -- with of or over.

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

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

To give an advantage to; to further; to promote; to benefit; to profit.

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Advantage Quotations

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Thomas Jefferson

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.
Ronald Reagan

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
Mark Twain

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Mark Twain

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
Napoleon Hill

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.
Benjamin Franklin

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
Benjamin Franklin

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
Friedrich Nietzsche

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.
Henry David Thoreau

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.
Henry David Thoreau

Advantage Translations

advantage in Afrikaans is voordeel
advantage in Danish is fordel
advantage in German is Vorteil, Gewinn, Vorteil
advantage in Italian is vantaggio, guadagno
advantage in Latin is usus, opportunitas, oportunitas, commodum
advantage in Norwegian is fordel
advantage in Portuguese is vantagem
advantage in Spanish is lucro, ventaja

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