noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
added advantage/bonus/benefit etc
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The system has the added advantage of recordable DVD drives.
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Include people in your picture for added interest .
advantages and disadvantages (= the good and bad features of something )
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Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of working from home.
pecuniary advantage
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He was trying to get a pecuniary advantage for himself.
take full advantage
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Few customers take full advantage of off-peak fares.
the advantages outweigh the disadvantages (= there are more advantages than disadvantages )
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The advantages of building the new road would outweigh the disadvantages.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
able
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Lack of internal capital and entrepreneurial experience mean that rural people are often not able to take advantage of such opportunities.
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In particular, corporations may be able to take advantage of mass-production technologies.
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New customers to the store will also be able to take advantage of a unique promotion introduced at Wandsworth.
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While S-HTTP will be able to take advantage of ubiquitous certification infrastructures, its deployment does not require it.
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The back line made a few errors but there wasn't anyone on the Southampton side able to take advantage .
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Not all users will be able to take advantage of the new software, however.
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The Partnership has strong links with other organisations and the teacher placement organiser is able to take advantage of this.
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I know that many of them were able to take advantage of the victory.
added
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Commercial awareness and an interest in sales and marketing would be an added advantage .
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This has the added advantage of making a nice contrast to the night scenes in the previous sequence.
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And that would have the added advantage of being able to hop from one creature to another.
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It drapes beautifully and is consequently most suitable for curtains, with the added advantage that it is not affected by sunlight.
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An added advantage: you don't have to pay any licence fee for this model because there is no T.V. receiver.
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These audio-visual methods have the added advantage of being independent of the availability of the system.
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This would have the added advantage of bringing some employment to rural areas.
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Inkjet printers provide a similar facility but with the added advantage of colour.
big
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One big advantage is that is now much easier to recognize visitors amongst us.
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A big advantage in starting the magazine on-line has been the cost, Moore said.
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As the director I have the big advantage that I know all the melodies.
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But auto mechanics have a big advantage over physicians.
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As chapter 11 is so bad for senior creditors, management and shareholders have a big advantage .
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Kipper said the big advantage is portability.
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This has the big advantage that it can be put into place by just one person.
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Perhaps the biggest advantage is that 56K modems can use conventional telephone connections.
comparative
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Developing countries are attracting investment not by lowering their standards, but because they are making the best of their comparative advantage .
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The classical theory of comparative advantage is often taught as if everyone benefits from trade.
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Given the existence of resource mobility in a single country, the exploitation of comparative advantage is possible.
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The alternative case where free entry restores standard comparative advantage is when factor endowments are sufficiently similar to permit factor price equalization.
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A trend had already been set in textiles, where the comparative advantage of cheap labour was becoming important.
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In the classical theory of comparative advantage , there is no role for government in determining the location of industry.
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In Figure 2.1 the case of reaping comparative advantage is examined.
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In the nineteenth and for most of the twentieth century, the theory of comparative advantage explained what needed to be explained.
competitive
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During the last few years our strategy has been clearly focused on those businesses where we have significant competitive advantage .
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Aiding the domestic industry to gain or maintain international competitive advantage has never been an explicit expectation.
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These linkages provided a source of new competitive advantage for the entire corporate system and threatened the foundations of powerful national firms.
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The local producer may lack the competitive advantages to market the indigenously made product internationally.
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These will ultimately result in competitive advantage .
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The Big Three are making a lot of noise in hopes of gaining a political and competitive advantage .
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The result is an unfair competitive advantage .
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They seek short-term competitive advantage even when it leads to long-term suicide.
considerable
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Yet there are considerable advantages of such an approach.
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Ellet had been first on the scene, and that gave him a considerable advantage over his ponderous rival.
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This would be a considerable safety advantage should the engines fail.
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The elongated nose, however, gave these animals a considerable advantage over their competitors.
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But there will frequently be considerable advantages in being able to deal anonymously.
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None the less, everything important is included on Sony's single disc, which thus enjoys a considerable price advantage .
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We share the considerable advantages of this arrangement with our patients and our practice.
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They appear currently to have considerable social advantages .
distinct
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This has distinct advantages over using eye drops.
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But the mulattoes had one distinct advantage .
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The natural projection of the land along the Thames conferred distinct advantages on West Ham as a site for the new docks.
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Cities have a distinct advantage over school and special districts.
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There were distinct advantages for me in the relationship.
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Some designs have distinct advantages and so these should be considered before purchase.
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Such an approach has distinct advantages .
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For any kind of prolonged activity, warm-bloodedness would have been a distinct advantage .
economic
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From what I have said, it follows that political union is more likely to be achieved when there is economic advantage .
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It is not clear, however, what are the economic and technological advantages of this development.
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It also has other economic advantages in that it requires fewer facing bricks than solid walls!
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I do not believe this is because more children are an economic advantage to settled people.
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Where there is economic advantage in reusing information there will be an easy business case for the preservation of records.
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Women worked themselves into key jobs that paid best, giving them an economic advantage for the first time in history.
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It has been of considerable economic advantage to both countries.
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Submarine cables provide an attractive economic advantage for selected routes where the growth in demand for communications capacity is high.
full
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Pergamon was an imposing hillside city and full advantage was taken of this dramatic site.
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Take full advantage of the hierarchical authority directly exercisable by you and those of your colleagues prepared to live the change.
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Add in the slower pitches ad lower bounce and Hick was able to take full advantage .
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The movie succeeds to a modest extent by taking full advantage of the romantic screen personas of its two stars.
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Drivers do not take full advantage of a vehicle's improved performance.
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The kidnaping had seen to that, and Master Yehudi was more than ready to take full advantage of the situation.
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We were even able to come and go as we pleased, taking full advantage of the splendid local restaurants.
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Once in a great while, a show is produced that uses the medium to full and proper advantage .
good
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Yet they put this knowledge to good advantage , both officially and in more mundane matters.
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I use the people on this team to the best advantage to get the best product.
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Peahens survey several males and take their time over their decision, allowing each to parade his tail to best advantage .
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The run used to be three miles but I added a quarter mile spur in order to use the time to best advantage .
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Professionals need to be aware of such things and use them to good advantage .
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Marine fish have such beautiful vivid colours and it is a pity not to display these to best advantage .
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Still, it was he who understood how to use such a man to the State's best advantage .
great
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However, others saw in it greater advantages than we had and were keen to invest.
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People who have played in the orchestra have a great advantage .
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One other great advantage of the plate is that it provides a wide surface upon which to dry out.
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This is of great advantage to good horse trainers, but a real bane to poor ones.
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Long drawn out and unpredictable as the process may be, it has one great advantage for the policy-maker.
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The great advantage of factoring and invoice discounting is their flexibility.
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This has the great advantage of allowing local history materials to be used.
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By far the greatest advantage is that it is played in real time so you can jump in whenever you like.
important
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An important cash advantage or money making opportunity can be seized.
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This gives a more powerful bite, and thus represents an important evolutionary advantage .
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There are two important advantages of using insects in developmental work.
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If we can develop a conceptual language therefore, there may be important advantages for the scheme.
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The interpersonal exchanges in speech have other important advantages for the learner.
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It doesn't kill them, it merely makes them slip off - a feature which can have important environmental advantages .
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Some of the more important advantages and disadvantages of the three approaches described are as follows: 9.
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The family is designed to replace Advanced Micro's bipolar equivalents and offers customers the important advantage of power savings.
main
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The main advantage of building this way is the houses fit into old villages so well.
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The main competitive advantage of the firm is the relatively low cost of the labor force both for production and design.
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The main advantage of Sidebar though, she says, is its ability to present information efficiently on small screens.
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Its main advantage is that it contains fewer calories than margarIne.
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The main advantage of the Flydaw dramatic reduction in the capital cost of construction.
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The main advantage of the career civil service is continuity.
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But secure payment is Minitel's main advantage .
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The main advantage of this drug is that it has minimal serious side effects and no dysmorphic effects with long-term usage.
major
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Another major advantage is the insight it is capable of yielding into the social and communicative norms of the community.
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One major advantage the development partnership had was the perception of Zeckendorf as different from other potential landlords.
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A major advantage of both MID-TEL and MID-CRED is that neither system requires customers to install expensive computer equipment.
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This production flaunts a major advantage the National has over traditional West End theaters, with their proscenium stages.
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A major advantage of a personal pension is that if you change jobs you can take it with you without penalty.
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The major advantage of a unitary state is the presence of clear, hierarchical authority.
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Another major advantage is the detailed notes for technicians relating to each of the activities.
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There are four major advantages to adopting this approach.
obvious
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Where it's good it's very good indeed and all-wheel drive at this price as an obvious advantage .
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Despite the obvious advantages of a unified perspective for collective political action, the differences among women disallow such a perspective.
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There are obvious functional advantages in the possession of two legs.
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There are obvious advantages to the camera approach.
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This has obvious advantages for local users.
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These large companies have obvious advantages in the service provider business because of their well-known brand names.
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Their true jaws are of obvious advantage for grasping prey.
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The most obvious advantage of this system was that it made obsolete the fifty-five spheres of Aristotle.
pecuniary
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It need not be a pecuniary advantage .
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The charge should be attempted theft or obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception.
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The two charges of conspiracy and obtaining pecuniary advantage against Turpin had been dropped.
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The accused was charged with obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception.
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By that misrepresentation the accused obtained both property and a pecuniary advantage .
political
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This legal and political advantage is balanced by the higher order of technical complexity involved in exploiting sulphide ores.
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But Republicans and Democrats are wasting little time in maneuvering for political advantage .
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Brüning's policies appeared to be specifically designed to work to the political advantage of the National Socialists.
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Smearing a good woman for partisan, political advantage can be a deadly game that can easily backfire.
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States and ruling orders continually seek to manipulate religion to political advantage .
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Clinton even turned snafus in the Northern Ireland peace process into potential political advantage .
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If the Government had wanted to make the Bill an election winner, they would have seen that political advantage .
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Political discourse, in this view, is full of manipulation, deception, and untruths whose object is political advantage .
significant
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During the last few years our strategy has been clearly focused on those businesses where we have significant competitive advantage .
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Incumbents retain a significant fund-raising advantage over challengers, particularly in the House.
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This is a very significant advantage as discussions about different weightings are not held up while new calculations are made.
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For Matt and Angela, postponing parenthood also had significant advantages .
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One significant advantage of electric vehicles is that their widespread use would make far better use of off-peak electricity.
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The mass payback soon rises above 1: 1 and after several missions is showing a significant mass advantage .
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For ears treated surgically there was no significant advantage of adenoidectomy alone over the baseline category of tube insertion alone.
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As a source of meat, buffalo has significant advantages over beef.
unfair
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Salary caps are imposed to prevent richer clubs gaining an unfair advantage over poorer rivals by offering players vastly inflated salaries.
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The unfair advantage bestowed by pants was a lifelong grievance.
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Mind you, this does give me an unfair advantage .
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They got to use a hymnal, one more unfair advantage of being older.
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The result is an unfair competitive advantage .
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But if the absolute rise in eps is used, companies which begin with high eps have an unfair advantage .
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The first is that in so far as people continue to believe the figures, the Government derives an unfair advantage .
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After all, if they tried to play as women, they would be accused of stealing an unfair advantage .
■ NOUN
tax
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Self-employed people will be able to purchase vouchers and receive similar tax advantages .
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Under the old code, it was a race to see who could get what sort of tax advantage .
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At the extreme, tax advantages gave rise to downright asset stripping.
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There is no tax advantage to shareholders in receiving shares in place of the normal cash dividend.
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As already discussed, there could be tax advantages in retaining a mortgage.
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Usually this is because of tax advantages .
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Lastly, they want to give tax advantages to causes deemed worthy, or at least popular.
■ VERB
enjoy
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Our growth projects will be in sectors where we enjoy the advantage of efficient technology and low-cost feedstocks.
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But by being there first, the Big East still enjoys an advantage .
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None the less, everything important is included on Sony's single disc, which thus enjoys a considerable price advantage .
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It permits the little boy to enjoy fully the advantages of the phallic development he is now entering.
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The Treasury now enjoyed the advantage of a strong Chancellor, respected throughout Whitehall as Wood had not been.
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Never can he enjoy the same advantages , however great his learning, when he pitches camp elsewhere.
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Over the last five games Kasparov will enjoy the advantage of 3 whites to 2.
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Dole and Gramm, to be sure, enjoy fund-raising advantages of their own, as powerful long-serving senators.
gain
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Those firms within the Community which employ labour illicitly will reduce their labour costs and gain a competitive advantage in production.
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At first capital only gained advantage in relation to labor and may even have lost some ground to the state.
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Salary caps are imposed to prevent richer clubs gaining an unfair advantage over poorer rivals by offering players inflated salaries.
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The battle developed into one of maneuvering and firing with neither vessel gaining the advantage .
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This seemed to gain him a psychological advantage , since White's opening initiative had evidently petered out by this point.
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Females, by contrast, gain no advantage by mating with many males.
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Neither was ever able to gain any decided advantage .
give
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Catterson also observed that e-mail links between plants and subsidiaries of the same company can give union negotiators the advantage of surprise.
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That gave me a slight advantage .
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Mind you, this does give me an unfair advantage .
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Most teams have mere men playing that position, which gives Cleveland an extraordinary advantage .
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Finally, remember that fishing from a punt gives you a tremendous advantage .
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This arrangement presumably gave each group the advantage of economic security, but it also subjected the individual to economic regimentation.
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But the Kula itself simply drove identifiable valuables round in a circle giving no utilitarian advantage to anyone.
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Analysts pointed out that owning shops gives tour operators other advantages .
offer
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New media offer many advantages over the magnetic tapes that they replace.
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On-line backup offers several advantages over removable storage systems.
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It will offer advantages to international and to domestic travellers.
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Hardened firewall hosts also offer specific advantages , for example: Concentration of security.
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Such unpredictability can offer advantages , however.
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Electronically supported meetings not only solve pressing business problems but offer their own advantages .
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They can offer little advantage over pressure jet cleaners, are sometimes dangerous and are generally more expensive to run.
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To these group owners the brokered-time concept offers many advantages .
press
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Will its foes use the occasion of Kabila s death to press home their advantage ?
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The firm knew its value to the project and pressed for every advantage it could.
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For game 5 one would have expected that Karpov would have wished to press fiercely for an advantage with the white pieces.
take
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It was the young people of Edinburgh who took advantage of late-night hours, not visitors, he argued.
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But no party is willing to refuse to take advantage of these loopholes when the other party is doing it.
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This can be taken advantage of at any point within a word.
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While S-HTTP will be able to take advantage of ubiquitous certification infrastructures, its deployment does not require it.
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It can also, in another sense, be regarded as taking advantage of the vulnerability of the recipient of the threat.
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Nothing is more destructive to a partnership than for one partner to feel that he or she is being taken advantage of.
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She gasped at the easy way in which he took advantage of her lack of physical strength to fight him.
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Gooden has seen friends take advantage of Sheffield.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
hold the lead/advantage
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But this time Carlos Sainz, who had held the lead since Tuesday, came third in a Toyota.
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In race one, Hodgson was able to get a better run through the backmarkers and hold the lead to the line.
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New Zealand held the lead for long periods and their frequent advantages depended on the only try of the match.
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She held the lead and quietly plodded upward through the crisp snow that covered the long Baskan Glacier.
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She held the lead in her gloved hands; behind her was Selene, with hers protected by a muff.
press home your advantage
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Will its foes use the occasion of Kabila s death to press home their advantage?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I had already lived in France for a year, so I had a big advantage over the other students.
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People who have been to university have a big advantage when it comes to finding jobs.
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Taxes on imports gave Japanese companies an unfair advantage .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Electronically supported meetings not only solve pressing business problems but offer their own advantages.
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If you appear to be easy and soft, people take advantage of you.
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None the less, everything important is included on Sony's single disc, which thus enjoys a considerable price advantage .
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The advantage will be smoother, more life-like, more in-depth games - and probably more vivid nightmares.
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The Big Three are making a lot of noise in hopes of gaining a political and competitive advantage .
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The elongated nose, however, gave these animals a considerable advantage over their competitors.
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There might, however, be other advantages to polyandry.
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This gives them at least two powerful advantages over their struggling counterparts.