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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Success | Advantage over; upper hand, whip hand; ascendancy, mastery; expugnation, conquest, victory, subdual; subjugation; (subjection). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: ADVANTAGE OVER |
| English words defined with "ADVANTAGE OVER": advantage ♦ Plumper ♦ Strategic point ♦ To get the best of, trade secret ♦ vantage, Vantage ground. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ADVANTAGE OVER": Atracurium ♦ cardoxide, Chorionic Villi Sampling, comparative advantage, comparative cost, conical beam ♦ Fluoroimmunoassay ♦ Hubble Space Telescope ♦ Message Passing Interface ♦ Weather-gage, Wet Floodproofing. (references) |
| Author | Quotation |
Thomas Jefferson | Nothing gives a person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority. |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | The heaviest rain, and snow, and hail, and sleet, could boast of the advantage over him in only one respect. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | It offers the substantial advantage over open cholecystectomy of markedly decreased pain and disability, without apparent increased mortality or overall morbidity. (references) | |
There is some evidence that a combination of tricyclics and exposure therapy may have additive effects in the short term, but there is no evidence for long-term advantage over either method alone. (references) | ||
Business | This offers an advantage over U.S. BPM products. (references) | |
American beers have one significant advantage over domestic products, cost of production. (references) | ||
A brand name supported by financing programs may have an advantage over others of the same quality. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Ukraine | This backing gives these newspapers an advantage over smaller, more independent newspapers. (references) |
Cameroon | The Government levies taxes on all registered taxpayers to finance CRTV programming, giving it a distinct advantage over the new independent broadcasters. (references) | |
Croatia | These subsidies created an unfair advantage over independent television stations whose financial resources and ability to purchase programming was limited. (references) | |
Economic History | Switzerland | Their vertical structure and centralized buying give them a competitive advantage over independent retailers. (references) |
Bahrain | Agents who offer superior after-sales service will have a competitive advantage over the medium and long term. (references) | |
Costa Rica | Investors experienced with the complex and bureaucratic procedures are at an advantage over those who are not. (references) | |
Trade | Philippines | U.S. consultants particularly enjoy an advantage over their U.K, Canadian, and Australian counterparts in winning consulting contracts under ADB's technical assistance grants. (references) |
Travel | France | Product literature, correspondence and negotiations in the French language provide a distinct advantage over competitors who use only English. (references) |
Spain | While an increasing number of business people speak English, product literature, correspondence and negotiations in Spanish provide a distinct advantage over competitors who use only English. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Moldova | The GFTU's continuing role in managing the state insurance system and its retention of former official union headquarters and vacation facilities provide an inherent advantage over other groups who might wish to form a union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
Expressions using "ADVANTAGE OVER": gain an advantage over smb. ♦ have an advantage over. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "ADVANTAGE OVER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | olla jotakuta edullisemmassa asemassa (have the advantage over). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | advantageay overay ter vantagem sobre (have an advantage over). (various references) superioritate (advantage of, jump, pre eminence, predominance, superiority). (various references) преимущество перед (advantages over, benefit of). (various references) tener mejoranza sobre (have an advantage over). (various references) daha kuvvetli olmak (gain an advantage over smb.). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-d-e-e-g-n-o-r-t-v-v" | |
-4 letters: advantage, orangeade, renovated. | |
-5 letters: averaged, derogate, dragonet, endeavor, engraved, gadarene, governed, overaged, overneat, renegado, renovate, vanadate. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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