advantage

Speech parts

1. advantage - Noun

2. advantage - Verb

Meaning

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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Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue. Demosthenes

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. Marcus Aurelius

We do not accost a physician as we do any mere nobody; nor a magistrate as we do a private individual. We try to get some advantage from the skill of the one and the position of the other. Walk in the sun, and your shadow will follow you, whether you will or not. Basil of Caesarea

A single advantage is worth a thousand sorceries. Turkish Proverb

Taking advantage of a murky/confusing situation. Indonesian Proverb

Between two cowards, the first to detect the other has the advantage. Italian Proverb

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