Phrase Hound found 35 phrases and 8 compound words that contain advantage. The most common are listed below. Open advantage in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 35
- take advantageTo profit from a situation deliberately.
- competitive advantageAn attribute that allows a company or a person to outperform competitors.
- take advantage ofTo use or make use of.
- comparative advantageThe ability to produce a particular good at a lower relative opportunity cost than another producer.
- play the advantageTo allow play to continue, that the referee doesn't whistle for a foul, despite the attacking team being fouled, because they are in an advantageous position.
- absolute advantageThe capability to produce more of a given product using the same quantity or less of a given resource than a competing entity.
- mechanical advantageThe ratio of the output force produced by a machine (especially a simple machine) to the applied input force.
- man advantageSynonym of power play: Tactics used to magnify power or influence.
- advantage playA player's use of discouraged or bannable but not illegal techniques, such as card counting, to gain an advantage, usually over the house, at games of chance.
- advantage playerOne who engages in advantage play.
- advantage playersplural of advantage player: One who engages in advantage play.
- home advantageThe advantage a sports team has from using their usual sports field
- house advantageSynonym of vigorish (“a charge taken on bets”)
- taking advantage ofpresent participle and gerund of take advantage of
- advantage gamblingAdvantage play.
- selective advantageThe characteristic of an organism that enables it to survive and reproduce better than other organisms in a population in a given environment; the basis for evolution by natural selection.
- home field advantageThe advantage a team enjoys from being on its usual playing field (i.e., its home ground).
- took advantage ofsimple past of take advantage of
- two-man advantageA power play where two of the opposing team's players are in the penalty box.
- takes advantage ofthird-person singular simple present indicative of take advantage of: To use or make use of.
- taken advantage ofpast participle of take advantage of: To use or make use of.
- rest of advantageSynonym of lance rest: A metal flange attached to the side of a breastplate, to steady a lance, arrest its rearward movement, and distribute the force of its impact to the torso (rather than the lancer's arm joints).
- take at advantageTo avail oneself of an (often unfair) opportunity against.
- to one's advantageIn a way that is favorable to one.
- one-man advantageA power play where one of the opposing team's players is in the penalty box.
Compound words 8
- advantageousBeing of advantage, beneficial.
- counteradvantageAn advantage held by an opponent.
- overadvantageThe state or condition of having excessive advantage.
- underadvantageInsufficiently help.
- advantageththird-person singular simple present indicative of advantage: Any condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable or chance to success, or to any desired end.
- disadvantageA weakness or undesirable characteristic; con; drawback.
- advantageableProviding an advantage; helpful to the advancement of a cause.
- misadvantageDisadvantage.