advantaged

[ ad-van-tijd ]

adjective

1. having greater resources or better skills, education, facilities, etc.:

   She is more advantaged than her cousin.

2. having sufficient or abundant income, natural resources, etc.; affluent:

   the advantaged nations.

noun

, (used with a plural verb)

1. Usually the advantaged. advantaged people collectively:

   a luxury cruise that only the advantaged could afford.

advantaged

/ ədˈvɑːntɪdʒd /

adjective

1. in a superior social or economic position

Other Words From

• un·ad·van·taged adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of advantaged¹

First recorded in 1595–1605; advantage + -ed ³

Example Sentences

Of course, CNN is advantaged by being in nearly 30 million more households than FBN.

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The unions would have gone nuclear: tax-advantaged health benefits are one of their selling points for members.

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But what's clear is that, over the past decade, this aspect of the Electoral College has advantaged Democrats.

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Americans take a lot of their compensation in the form of tax-advantaged benefits, particularly health care costs.

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In other words, are the tax advantages of a whole life policy better than investing in a non-tax-advantaged manner?

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For what shall it profit a man, what is a man advantaged, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

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I have been advantaged thereby before now, and did not know but by speaking no truth, I might have reaped the same benefit now.

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By thine aid is he advantaged, and made strong by thy valour and prowess: Bitterest was that Battle in which thou didst engage.

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He took some part in the Civil War, but “he was very often of both parties, and never advantaged either.”

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Cookworthy died in 1780, not in any way advantaged by his discovery.

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