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Definition of Advantage

Advantage

  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.
  2. Superiority; mastery; -- with of or over.
  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).
  5. To give an advantage to; to further; to promote; to benefit; to profit.

Advantage Quotations

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

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

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

We try to be real nice and friendly to people, but sometimes they take advantage of that.
Layne Staley

One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.
Judith Viorst
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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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