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advantage noun accommodation, aid, approval, asset, assistance, authority, avail, behoof, choice, convenience, dominance, easement, edge, expedience, favor, favorable opportunity, favoring circumstance, gain, good, head start, help, hold, influence, lead, leverage, mastery, odds, patronage, plus, position, power, precedence, predominance, preference, prestige, primacy, privilege, profit, resources, sake, sanction, success, superior situaaion, superiority, support, supremacy, sway, upper hand, utility, welfare, worth See also: behalf, benefit, betterment, chance, dividend, edification, fortuity, help, interest, inure, leverage, patronage, precedence, preference, prerogative, priority, privilege, prize, profit, shelter, utility, value, welfare, worth How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Definitions change over time and place, and
they have political implications, advantaging some people and
disadvantaging others. It
offered more vivid vocabulary than neurasthenia and soon a less fully
medical-professional context as well--both aspects advantaging the new
concept over existing formulations. But the term does not go far enough in emphasizing
that these schemes are zero-sum games: Advantaging certain groups always
means disadvantaging the rest. |
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