Usually means: Benefit gained from specific circumstances.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. advantage: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. advantage: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. advantage: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. advantage: Collins English Dictionary
  5. advantage: Vocabulary.com
  6. Advantage, advantage: Wordnik
  7. advantage: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. advantage: Wiktionary
  9. advantage: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. advantage: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. advantage: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Advantage, advantage: Dictionary.com
  13. advantage: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. advantage: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Advantage (album), Advantage (cryptography), Advantage (debate), Advantage (film), Advantage, The Advantage (album), The Advantage: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Advantage: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. advantage: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. advantage: Rhymezone
  19. advantage: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. advantage: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. advantage: Free Dictionary
  22. advantage: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. advantage: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. advantage: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. advantage: Merriam-Webster.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. advantage: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. advantage: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. advantage: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. advantage: Father Jeromes DICTIONARY of Words/Phrases Used in the QUFD Website

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. advantage: Urban Dictionary

Sports (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Handball-Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Advantage: Chess Dictionary
  3. Advantage: Tennis Glossary
  4. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  5. Advantage: Sports Definitions

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Advantage: Latitude Mexico

(Note: See advantaged as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable) Any condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable or chance to success, or to any desired end.
noun:  (obsolete) Superiority; mastery; — used with of to specify its nature or with over to specify the other party.
noun:  (countable, uncountable) Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit
noun:  (tennis) The score where one player wins a point after deuce but needs the next to carry the game.
noun:  (soccer) The continuation of the game after a foul against the attacking team, because the attacking team are in an advantageous position.
noun:  Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen).
verb:  (transitive) to provide (someone) with an advantage, to give an edge to
verb:  (reflexive) to do something for one's own benefit; to take advantage of

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