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📖 Определения и значения для слова advantage

📒 a thing that helps you to be better or more successful than other people

  • a distinct/significant/huge advantage
  • It gives you an unfair advantage (= something that benefits you, but not your opponents).
  • She had the advantage of a good education.

📒 a quality of something that makes it better or more useful

  • Each of these systems has its advantages and disadvantages.
  • Continuous assessment offers clear advantages for teachers and students.
  • advantage of (doing) something A small car has the added advantage of being cheaper to run.

📒 the first point scored after a score of 40–40

  • Advantage Miss Stephens.

📒 to give you an advantage; to change a situation in a way that gives you an advantage

  • It would be to your advantage to attend this meeting.
  • Eventually, the new regulations will work to our advantage.
  • The plan would be to our mutual advantage.

📒 to make use of something well; to make use of an opportunity

  • She took advantage of the children's absence to tidy their rooms.
  • We took full advantage of the hotel facilities.
  • I took complete advantage of the situation.

📒 to make use of somebody/something in a way that is unfair or dishonest

  • He took advantage of my generosity (= for example, by taking more than I had intended to give).

📒 in a way that shows the best of somebody/something

  • The photograph showed him to advantage.
  • May was the month to see the garden to best advantage.
  • The bright lighting showed the jewels to their best advantage.

📒 to use or change a bad situation so that it helps you

  • Every magician has a trick that goes wrong, but you can turn this to your advantage by pretending it was deliberate and making the audience laugh.
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