advantage

  1. Noun.  Any condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end.
  2. Noun.  Superiority; mastery; — used with of to specify its nature or with over to specify the other party.
  3. Noun.  Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit; as, the advantage of a good constitution.
  4. Noun.  (tennis) The score where one player wins a point after deuce but needs the next too to carry the game.
  5. Verb.  (transitive) To provide with an advantage, to give an edge.

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