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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Affording advantage; beneficial. See Synonyms at beneficial.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Of advantage; furnishing convenience or opportunity to gain benefit; gainful; profitable; useful; beneficial: as, an advantageous position of the troops; trade is advantageous to a nation.
  2. Synonyms Helpful, serviceable, favorable, remunerative.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Being of advantage; conferring advantage; gainful; profitable; useful; beneficial; as, an advantageous position.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Being of advantage; conferring advantage; gainful; profitable; useful; beneficial.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. giving an advantage
  2. adj. appropriate for achieving a particular end; implies a lack of concern for fairness

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