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[ verb ] draw advantages from

Examples

"he is capitalizing on her mistake" "she took advantage of his absence to meet her lover"

Used in print

([Anonymous,] "The Attack on Employee Services"...)

Are they encouraged to take full legal advantage of these benefits ?

(Booton Herndon, "From Custer to Korea, The 7th Cavalry"...)

Further , he had taken full advantage of the Army 's correspondence_courses .

Reinforcements came_up quickly to take_advantage of the opening made by Goulding 's platoon .

(Arlin Turner, "William Faulkner, Southern Novelist"...)

Others who wrote_of low characters and low life included Thomas_Bangs_Thorpe , creator of the Big_Bear of Arkansas and Tom_Owen , the Bee-Hunter ; Johnson_Jones_Hooper , whose character Simon_Suggs bears a close kinship to Flem_Snopes in both his willingness to take cruel advantage of all and sundry and the sharpness with which he habitually carried_out his will ; and George_Washington_Harris , whose Tennessee hillbilly character Sut_Lovingood perpetrated more unmalicious mischief and more unintended pain than any other character in literature .

(Your Federal Income Tax. 1962 Edition (Revised to...)

You must attach a statement to your return , if you take_advantage of this automatic extension , showing that you were in Alaska or were outside the United_States or Puerto_Rico on April 15 or other due_date .

Related terms

profit capitalization

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[ verb ] make excessive use of

Synonyms

trespass

Examples

"You are taking advantage of my good will!" "She is trespassing upon my privacy"

Used in print

(Jim Harmon, "The Planet with No Nightmare," If,...)

The buddies invariably took_advantage of him .

Related terms

use use impinge

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