Opportunity vs Advantage - What's the difference?
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A chance for advancement, progress or profit.
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A favorable circumstance or occasion.
Any condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end.
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(obsolete) Superiority; mastery; — used with of to specify its nature or with over to specify the other party.
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Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit; as, the advantage of a good constitution.
(tennis) The score where one player wins a point after deuce but needs the next too to carry the game.
(soccer) The continuation of the game after a foul against the attacking team, because the attacking team are in a advantageous position.
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Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen).
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To provide (someone) with an advantage, to give an edge to.
(reflexive) To do something for one's own benefit; to take advantage of.
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As nouns the difference between opportunity and advantage
is that opportunity is a chance for advancement, progress or profit while advantage is any condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end.As a verb advantage is
to provide (someone) with an advantage, to give an edge to.opportunity
English
(wikipedia opportunity)Noun
(opportunities)- Having a holiday is a great opportunity to relax.
- I wanted to become a professional, but because of my financial situation there were no opportunities .
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Derived terms
* business opportunity * the ladder of opportunity * Land of Opportunity * equal opportunity * photo opportunity * opportunity cost * when opportunity knocksStatistics
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Alternative forms
* advauntage (obsolete)Noun
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- Give me advantage of some brief discourse.
- the advantages of a close alliance
- Lest Satan should get an advantage of us.
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- Webb played an advantage that enabled Cazorla to supply a low cross from the left for Giroud to sweep home first time, despite Gallas and Vertonghen being in close attendance.
- And with advantage means to pay thy love.
Synonyms
* foredeal, benefit, value, edge * vantageAntonyms
* disadvantage, drawbackDerived terms
* advantage ground * advantageous * advantageously * advantageousness * have the advantage * take advantageVerb
(advantag)- No man of courage vouchsafeth to advantage himselfe of that which is common unto many.