Liberty vs Advantage - What's the difference?
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The condition of being free from control or restrictions.
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The condition of being free to act, believe or express oneself as one chooses.
Freedom from excessive government control.
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A breach of social convention (often liberties ).
A local government unit in medieval England – see .
Any condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end.
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* Macaulay
(obsolete) Superiority; mastery; — used with of to specify its nature or with over to specify the other party.
* Bible, 2 Corinthians ii. 11
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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Advantage is a synonym of liberty.
As nouns the difference between liberty and advantage
is that liberty is the condition of being free from control or restrictions 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.liberty
English
(wikipedia liberty)Noun
Freedom fighter, passage=[Edmund] Burke continued to fight for liberty later on in life. He backed Americans in their campaign for freedom from British taxation. He supported Catholic freedoms and freer trade with Ireland, in spite of his constituents’ ire. He wanted more liberal laws on the punishment of debtors.}}
We mustn't overreact to North Korea boys' toys, passage=The threat of terrorism to the British lies in the overreaction to it of British governments. Each one in turn clicks up the ratchet of surveillance, intrusion and security. Each one diminishes liberty .}}
Synonyms
* freedom * independenceDerived terms
* at liberty * liberty of conscience * take liberties * take the libertyExternal links
* * English abstract nouns ----advantage
English
Alternative forms
* advauntage (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Ed Pilkington
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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.
Arsenal 5-2 Tottenham
- 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.