TAKE ADVANTAGE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Draw advantages from

Example:

she took advantage of his absence to meet her lover

Synonyms:

capitalise; capitalize; take advantage

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "take advantage" is one way to...):

benefit; gain; profit (derive a benefit from)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make excessive use of

Example:

She is trespassing upon my privacy

Synonyms:

take advantage; trespass

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "take advantage" is one way to...):

use (seek or achieve an end by using to one's advantage)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "take advantage"):

encroach; entrench; impinge; trench (impinge or infringe upon)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Credits

Context examples:

Our residence at Canterbury, and our local connexion, will, no doubt, enable him to take advantage of any vacancy that may arise in the Cathedral corps.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"In terms of materials engineering, this work shows that these layered systems could be viable in creating new types of electronic devices that take advantage of these new quantum Hall states."

(Research reveals exotic quantum states in double-layer graphene, National Science Foundation)

But it was not immediately that an opportunity of doing so could be commanded, though Lucy was as well disposed as herself to take advantage of any that occurred; for the weather was not often fine enough to allow of their joining in a walk, where they might most easily separate themselves from the others; and though they met at least every other evening either at the park or cottage, and chiefly at the former, they could not be supposed to meet for the sake of conversation.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I understood him to mean if we were to take advantage of their coming to divert if possible the thoughts of the unhappy husband and wife from each other and from themselves; so on nodding acquiescence to him he asked them what they had seen or done.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Sheldon says it's the latest and greatest in machine learning to extract bird data from the radar record and to take advantage of the treasure trove of bird migration information in the decades-long radar data archives.

(Using artificial intelligence to track birds' dark-of-night migrations, National Science Foundation)

Mr. March told how he had longed to surprise them, and how, when the fine weather came, he had been allowed by his doctor to take advantage of it, how devoted Brooke had been, and how he was altogether a most estimable and upright young man.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

A list of non-aligned cancer center members with their departmental affiliations, areas of expertise and research interests and description of the strategies used to take advantage of their scientific expertise in furthering the research objectives of the center, is an essential part of the Cancer Center Support Grant Application.

(Non-programmatically Aligned Cancer Center Research Member Section of Cancer Center Support Grant Application, NCI Thesaurus)

The findings could open doors to therapies that take advantage of Bmp7’s navigational talents to direct the formation of regenerated sensory cells that are tuned to respond to a specific frequency, says Dr. James F. Battey, Jr., director of NIDCD.

(Hearing different frequencies, NIH)

You will love being in the fresh air, so do your best to take advantage of this chance to travel.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

She had a few tender reveries now and then, which he could sometimes take advantage of to look in her face without detection; and the result of these looks was, that though as bewitching as ever, her face was less blooming than it ought to be.