Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Middle English form of
advantage .
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Examples
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Temptations to take avantage of a situation will continue to present themselves and it is up to us to resist or submit.
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Je, aussi, chante dans le choeur, mais pour l 'avantage a les personnes agees.
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The Convention Center/Rose Quarter has three MAX lines and every other planner's avantage yet still can't get the spurring of private development to finish the job or pay for a Hotel without ANOTHER massive subsisdy.
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Temptations to take avantage of a situation will continue to present themselves and it is up to us to resist or submit.
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On the plus side, at least all the tourists taking avantage of the weak GBP and visiting the UK will directly contribute 2.5% more to the tax coffers via VAT.
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The prime minister understands this better than his opponents have, which helps explain why he generally manages to hang on to a modest poll avantage.
Paul Wells 2010
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Without technology Jake wouldn't have been able to give the Na'vi the avantage to survive the war with humans.
/Filmcast Ep. 81 - Avatar (GUEST: Dan Trachtenberg from the Totally Rad Show) | /Film 2009
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If the person with the huge avantage (and by huge advantage I mean being: white, not having Hussein Obama in your name, has the same last name and institutional support as the only Democrat president in nearly 30 yrs) convinces everyone that the person kicking their ass is an amateur, what does that say about them.
Hillary Spokesperson Describes Obama Campaign As "Amateur Hour" 2009
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The -gate factor is the political avantage Democrats hope to gain by continually pressing the issue.
"Troopergate" requires a "disambiguation" page in Wikipedia. Ann Althouse 2008
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Un autre avantage de ces répertoires est qu'ils permettent au téléphone d'afficher le nom de l'appellant, si ce dernier figure dans le répertoire.
Spring cleaning of telephone directory files/ Grand nettoyage des répertoires de téléphone Oleg Kuzin 2008
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