vantage
IPA: vˈæntʌdʒ
noun
- (archaic) An advantage.
- A place or position affording a good view; a vantage point.
- A superior or more favorable situation or opportunity; gain; profit; advantage.
- (dated, tennis) Alternative form of advantage (score after deuce) [(countable) Any condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable or chance to success, or to any desired end.]
verb
- (obsolete, transitive) To profit; to aid.
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Examples of "vantage" in Sentences
- Or, put another way, when a company with "vantage" in its name follows up
- Our vantage is that of an impassive bird, flying invisibly overhead, surveying the world with stately reserve.
- While some of his Democratic colleagues have expressed anger at this switch, my vantage is a little different.
- His vantage is an original combination of the archetypal and the impressionistic, the camera trailing after characters and hovering.
- Otherwise, knotholers, who named their vantage point after the knotholes in old wooden outfield fences through which fans could sneak peeks, enforce their own unwritten code of conduct.
- For all of Griet's talent for looking at the world from an artist's high-resolution vantage, is her eventual progression from housemaid to housewife really nothing but an inevitability, given both the cultural repression of her gender as well as her parents 'poverty?
- From a certain vantage, “the brief takes positions that from a political and policy point of view are hard to square with, well, sanity,” but an empty political gesture with minimal actual impact upon the operations of big and small businesses are probably precisely what Congress was aiming at.
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