advantage

Everyday

1. An advantage is something that helps you do better or makes you more likely to win or succeed. tree →
2. A good point or benefit of something, the opposite of a disadvantage. tree →
3. In tennis, advantage is the point won right after deuce. tree →
4. To take advantage of someone is to use their difficulties unfairly for your own benefit. tree →

In the lessons

In school, pupils list advantages and disadvantages of things, for example of living in a city or using plastic. In games and sports, a team with more players has an advantage. Phrases: take advantage of (use a chance well, or unfairly use someone), have an advantage over, to your advantage.

Examples

• Being tall is an advantage in basketball. tree →
• One advantage of a bike is that it does not pollute the air. tree →
• Our team had the advantage because we played at home. tree →
• Take advantage of the sunny day and go outside. tree →
• It is not fair to take advantage of a younger child. tree →
• Write two advantages and two disadvantages of school uniforms. tree →
• Starting first gave her an advantage in the race. tree →
• Knowing your times tables is a big advantage in maths. tree →
• It is wicked to take advantage of another's distress. tree →

Note

Countable noun: an advantage, advantages. Opposite: disadvantage. Take advantage of can be good (use a chance) or bad (cheat or use someone unkindly), so look at the sentence. Spelling: advan-tage, ending in -age.

In Jewish tradition

Interpretation: Job and his friends ask whether human goodness benefits God, and tradition reads that God needs nothing from us, so our good deeds help us and others. In the primary lessons: In school, pupils list advantages and disadvantages of things, for example of living in a city or using plastic. In games and sports, a team with more players has an advantage. Phrases: take advantage of (use a chance well, or unfairly use someone), have an advantage over, to your advantage.

Examples

• Is it any advantage to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? (Writings JOB.22.3, JPS 1917) tree →
• If the serpent bite before it is charmed, then the charmer hath no advantage. (Writings ECC.10.11, JPS 1917) tree →
• That thou inquirest: 'What advantage will it be unto Thee?' And: 'What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?' (Writings JOB.35.3, JPS 1917) tree →

Note

Countable noun: an advantage, advantages. Opposite: disadvantage. Take advantage of can be good (use a chance) or bad (cheat or use someone unkindly), so look at the sentence. Spelling: advan-tage, ending in -age.