| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Present participle | 1. Present participle conjugation of the verb advantage.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (advantage) | 1. Give an advantage to; "This system advantages the rich".[Wordnet]. 2. To give an advantage to; to further; to promote; to benefit; to profit.[Websters]. 3. Base verb from the following inflections: advantaging, advantaged, advantages, advantager, advantagers, advantagingly and advantagedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "ADVANTAGING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1590. (references) |
Specialty Definition: ADVANTAGING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Profiting; benefiting.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of advantage. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: advantage
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Advantage ground | Vantage ground. [R.] --Clarendon. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Baycorp Advantage | Baycorp Advantage is the largest credit bureau in Australia and New Zealand. It provides credit reporting, credit scoring, debt collection, and marketing analytics services. (references) | ||
| First-mover advantage | The first-mover advantage is the advantage gained by the first significant company to move into a new market. Being the first mover allows a company to capture market share without competition from rivals. Moreover, when competition does appear, the first mover will likely have the advantages that come from customers who are familiar with and loyal to their products. (references) | ||
| Heterozygote advantage | A heterozygote advantage (heterozygous advantage or overdominance) describes the case in which the heterozygote genotype has a higher relative fitness than either the homozygote dominant or homozygote recessive genotype. This selection favoring the heterozygote is one of the mechanisms that maintains polymorphism and helps to explain some kinds of genetic variability. There are several cases in which the heterozygote conveys certain advantages and some disadvantages while both versions of homozygotes are only at disadvantages. A well established case of heterozygote advantage is that of the gene involved in sickle cell anaemia. (references) | ||
| Homecourt advantage | The advantage of playing on your home court in front of fans who are rooting for you. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Line of advantage | In the field of astrology, the line of advantage is an imaginary line that connects the third decan of the third house to the third decan of the ninth house of the horoscope. If the North Node of the Moon falls east of the line of advantage, it is believed to be a favourable and advantageous position within the horoscope. (references) | ||
| Mechanical advantage | The ratio of the force exerted by a machine to the force applied to it. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Mechanical advantage | In physics and engineering, mechanical advantage (MA) is the factor by which a machine multiplies the force put into it. (references) | ||
| NES Advantage | The NES Advantage was a large joystick sold for the Nintendo Entertainment System beginning in 1987. The device was meant to rest on a flat surface at a comfortable level, such as a tabletop, or the floor while the player was seated in front of it. This way, it could be used like an arcade joystick and the buttons were used with both hands, one for the joystick and the other to manipulate the buttons. (references) | ||
| Second-mover advantage | Second-mover advantage is interrelated with the concept of first-mover advantage. Whereas firms who are the first to enter the market with a new product can gain substantial market share due to lack of competition, sometimes their efforts fail. Second-mover advantage occurs when a firm who follows the lead of the first-mover is actually able to capture greater market share, despite having entered late. First-mover firms often face high research and development costs and the marketing costs necessary to educate the public about a new type of product. A second-mover firm can learn from the experiences of the first mover firm and may not face such high research and development costs if they are able create their own similar product using existing technology. A second-mover firm also does not face the marketing task of having to educate the public about the new project because the first mover has already done so. As a result, the second-mover can use its resources to focus on making a superior product or out-marketing the first mover. Often times second-movers are able to overwhelm first movers by taking the first-mover’s product from a niche consumer market to mass markets. While firms may enjoy a first-mover advantage if they jump out to an early lead and hold onto it, the notion that winners are always the first to enter the market is a myth. (references) | ||
| Sustainable competitive advantage | In marketing and strategic management, sustainable competitive advantage is an advantage that one firm has relative to competing firms. It usually originates in a core competency. (references) | ||
| Take advantage | 1: Make excessive use of. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| 2: Draw advantages from. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
| Tax advantage | An advantage bestowed by legislation that reduces a tax on some preferred activity. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Tax advantage | Tax advantage refers to the economic bonus which applies to certain accounts or investments that are, by statute, tax-reduced, tax-deferred, or tax-free. The most obvious examples are Retirement plans, but investments in many state or municipal bonds can also be exempt from certain taxes. Governments establish the tax advantaged status of these investments to encourage private individuals to contribute money when it is considered to be in the public interest. (references) | ||
| To advantage | In a manner that uses the most flattering or best aspects of; "the dress brought out her figure to advantage". Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Windows Genuine Advantage | Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) is a program initiated by Microsoft which requires users of Microsoft Windows to validate their copy of several Microsoft operating systems when accessing several Microsoft Windows services such as Windows Update and downloading from Microsoft's website. Previously voluntary, it became mandatory for use of these services in July 2005. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: advantage
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Absolute advantage | Banking | 1: A person, company or country has an absolute advantage if its output per unit of input of all goods and services produced is higher than that of another person, company or country. (references) | |
| 2: A country has an absolute advantage if its output per unit of input of all goods and services produced is higher than that of another country. (references) | |||
| Absolute Advantage | Economics | An advantage of one nation or area over another in the costs of producing an item in terms of used resources. (references) | |
| Comparative advantage | Agriculture | Refers to the economic theory that in international trade it is more advantageous for a country to devote its resources not to all lines of production in which it may have superiority (least cost production), but to those in which its relative superiority is greatest. Two countries may find trade mutually profitable even if one of the countries could produce all goods at lower cost than the other. (references) | |
| Comparative advantage | Banking | Describes the ability of a person, company or country to produce a good or service at a lower cost relative to other goods and services. Even though a country may have an absolute advantage over another country, it still will be better off specializing in the good or service in which it has a comparative advantage and trading for goods and services it doesn't produce as efficiently. (references) | |
| Comparative advantage | Economics | The principle that, under given technological conditions, specialization in a product or service by the nation or other regional area enjoying a comparative advantage over all others in its costs of production, and the exchange of such a product or service, will do more for the common good than regional self-sufficiency. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Comparative advantage | Labor | When one nation's opportunity cost of producing an item is less than another nation's opportunity cost of producing that item. A good or service with which a nation has the largest absolute advantage (or smallest absolute disadvantage) is the item for which they have a comparative advantage. (references) | |
| Competitive advantage | Agriculture | A situation in which one country, region, or producer can produce a particular commodity more cheaply than another country, region or producer. (references) | |
| Granting an advantage | Law | Bribery in which a person offers, promises or gives a member of a judicial or other authority, a public official, an officially-appointed expert, translator or interpreter, an arbitrator or a member of the armed forces an advantage which is not due to him in order that he carries out his official duties. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Mechanical advantage | Mining | Ratio between the resistance or load raised by a machine, and the applied force. Mechanical advantage divided by velocity ratio gives the efficiencyof the machine. (references) | |
| Principle of comparative advantage | Physics | Units of production -- whether people or machines -- will be employed in those processes in which they are relatively more productive. This is the standard rebuttal for those who fear that machines will replace people. The principle implies that both people and machines can be fully employed regardless of their relative productivity. The long-run impact of industrialization and automation, it is argued, is not to reduce the size of the labor force but rather is to use machines in tasks best performed by machines and to use people in tasks which can only be done by people. (H. Simon, 1965, p. 6). (references) | |
| Strategic advantage | Military | (DOD) The overall relative power relationship of opponents that enables one nation or group of nations effectively to control the course of a military or political situation. (references) | |
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