advantage vs stead

advantage

noun
  • Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit 

  • The continuation of the game after a foul against the attacking team, because the attacking team are in an advantageous position. 

  • Any condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable or chance to success, or to any desired end. 

  • The score where one player wins a point after deuce but needs the next to carry the game. 

  • Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen). 

verb
  • to do something for one's own benefit; to take advantage of 

  • to provide (someone) with an advantage, to give an edge to 

stead

noun
  • The position or function (of someone or something), as taken on by a successor. 

  • An emotional or circumstantial "place" having specified advantages, qualities etc. (now only in phrases). 

  • One's partner in a romantic relationship. 

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