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n. A beneficial factor or combination of factors.

n. Benefit or profit; gain: It is to your advantage to invest wisely.

n. A relatively favorable position; superiority of means: A better education gave us the advantage.

n. Sports The first point scored in tennis after deuce.

n. Sports The resulting score.

v. To afford profit or gain to; benefit.

idiom. take advantage of To put to good use; avail oneself of: take advantage of all educational opportunities.

idiom. take advantage of To profit selfishly by; exploit: took advantage of the customer.

idiom. to advantage To good effect; favorably: The roses were displayed to advantage in a blue vase.

n. Any condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end.

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

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

n. The score where one player wins a point after deuce but needs the next too to carry the game.

n. The continuation of the game after a foul against the attacking team, because the attacking team are in a advantageous position.

n. Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit.

n. Superiority; mastery; -- with of or over.

n. Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit.

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

n. The first point scored after deuce.

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

verb-intransitive.

n. Any state, condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means specially favorable to success, prosperity, interest, reputation, or any desired end; anything that aids, assists, or is of service: as, he had the advantage of a good constitution, of an excellent education; the enemy had the advantage of elevated ground; “the advantages of a close alliance,” Macaulay.

n. Superiority or prevalence: regularly with of or over.

n. Benefit; gain; profit.

n. Usury; interest; increase.

n. A thirteenth article added to a dozen, making what is commonly known as a baker's dozen.

n. In lawn-tennis, the first point gained after deuce. Commonly called vantage. See lawn-tennis.

n. To overreach or impose upon

n. To utilize as a means toward overreaching or imposition.

n. Synonyms and Advantage, Benefit, Utility, Profit, help, vantage-ground, good, service. Advantage is the possession of a good vantage-ground for the attainment of ulterior objects of desire: as, he has the advantage of a good education. Benefit is a more immediate and realized good: as, a chief benefit of exercise is the improvement of health. Utility is usefulness in the practical or material sense: the utility of an education is a small part of the benefit derived from it. Profit signifies gain, with a suggestion of trade or exchange. A man may have good advantages, but derive from them little benefit or profit; even their utility to him may be small.

To benefit; be of service to; yield profit or gain to.

To gain ground or win acceptance for; promote or further.

To increase, as by interest.

Reflexively, to cause to be an advantage to; avail (one's self).

To gain an advantage; be benefited.

n. benefit resulting from some event or action

n. the quality of having a superior or more favorable position

v. give an advantage to

n. (tennis) first point scored after deuce

"The main advantage is immediate recognition of the problem so that it can be solved before it grows worse."

disadvantage   

advantaged    advantages    advantaging   

benefit    welfare    favor    favour    prefer    point   

good    benefit    to play upon advantage    to advantage    to have the advantage of    to take advantage of   

vantage    advance   

advantaged    advantaging    take advantage    advantageousness    advantageously    advantageous    advantage ground    have the advantage    advantageable   

benefit    beneficial    advantageous    superiority    mastery    gain    profit    increase    further    promote   

disadvantage    manage    micromanage    mismanage    vantage   

benefit    importance    consequence    result    influence    success    consideration    aspect    lack    opportunity