Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an advantageous manner; with advantage; profitably; usefully; conveniently.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Profitably; with advantage.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a manner which provides an
advantage ; in anadvantageous manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a manner affording benefit or advantage
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Examples
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We contend, that for tolerably good land, situated advantageously, that is, with a ready access to good markets and good fairs, such as those of Coventry, Birmingham, Gloucester, Worcester,
Biographical Essays Thomas De Quincey 1822
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Again, this argumentation is handled very advantageously, which is derived from a species when you pursue all the separate parts by tracing them back to the whole, in this way "If that is _dolus malus_ when one thing is aimed at, and another pretended," we may enumerate the different modes in which that can be done, and then under some one of them we may range that which we are trying to prove has been done
The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Treasury can always purchase, then claim to have revised its valuation and sell "advantageously" at a loss.
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Treasury can always purchase, then claim to have revised its valuation and sell "advantageously" at a loss.
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Right through the summer, Jeremy would stand at the top of a tall wooden ladder in those boxy, airless rooms in the Leeper building, wearing, I recall, comparatively tight-fitting shorts, while I did my best to read off the shelf lists (meaning drawers densely laden with cards), performing this function from as advantageously configured a vantage point below.
The Earth Goddess 2009
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The first piece of "The Drunken Father," is quite in the author's own style; though there are two or three stanzas very imperfect, which might probably be omitted advantageously.
Letter 388 2009
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Eileen and Michael SandersonBarnsley • Jackie Ashley writes Comment, 9 May that Cameron's Tories might advantageously engineer an early election.
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As a Californian who has now lived almost 20 years in Germany, I can assure you that resident aliens in Germany are treated more advantageously than those in the US.
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Michele Bachmann was able to reach her high-water mark without being unduly encumbered by her gender; nor was she advantageously buoyed by it.
Michele Bachmann and the glass ceiling of American politics | Cheri Jacobus 2012
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• In a team, there's always two points of view and that can be an asset rather than a liability if perceived advantageously.
Kathleen Gurney: Three P's Make a Compatible Money Pod Kathleen Gurney 2011
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