Advantage

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Superiority; mastery;

— with of or over.

II. Advantage ·noun Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen).

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

IV. Advantage ·vt To give an advantage to; to Further; to Promote; to Benefit; to Profit.

V. Advantage ·noun 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.

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