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[ verb ] draw advantages from
Synonyms 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 |
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