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Definition of Advantage
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

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

I have a name, I have to take advantage of it.
Pierre Cardin

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

And we have abundant natural energy resources in the country. We haven't been taking adequate advantage of them, and we can burn coal in a clean way; we could improve the grid.
John W. Snow

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

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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