immediate advantage

collocation in English

meaningsofimmediateandadvantage

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immediate
adjective
uk
/ɪˈmiː.di.ət/us
/ɪˈmiː.di.ət/
happening or done without delay or very soon after ...
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advantage
noun
uk
/ədˈvɑːn.tɪdʒ/us
/ədˈvæn.t̬ɪdʒ/
a condition giving a greater chance ...
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(Definition ofimmediateandadvantagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The sparse grid method, however, a priori treats all dimensions equally and thus gains noimmediateadvantage for problems where dimensions are of different importance.
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At this point it is ready to takeimmediateadvantageof the new conditions.
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Instead, the one time gain the ruler made from their sale offered animmediateadvantageinsecure tribal leaders could not ignore.
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This model provides the academically prepared teacher animmediateadvantageover the inexperienced, non-professional teacher.
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Mainly because there was noimmediateadvantagein doing so.
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That gives an indication that the average individual in his home is con—sidering whenceimmediateadvantagecan come.
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I suggest that about a half of them might takeimmediateadvantageof the temporary reduction in the qualifying age.
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But although it gave us animmediateadvantage, buying at abnormally low prices was one of the principal causes of world unemployment.
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That is in the long term, and there is noimmediateadvantagefrom it.
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He is trying to gainimmediateadvantagewithout any thought whatsoever of the confidence that he may inspire in the future.
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The new man coming in can reap animmediateadvantageto himself, to the disadvantage of the land.
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Data suggest that graduates who enter employment have animmediateadvantageof £4,000 a year over those who do so without the benefit of a degree.
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Although there might seem to be animmediateadvantage, in my view, such a step would be detrimental to the child's future.
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Theimmediateadvantageis that it will cheapen electricity production.
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They are men whose technical knowledge has enabled them to be ofimmediateadvantage.
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In 1900, the short term would have shown noimmediateadvantagefrom public expenditure on aircraft.
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We should takeimmediateadvantageof this situation.
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There is noimmediateadvantageto anyone, in terms of political popularity, in instinctively raising rents for an ideological reason.
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The difficulty, clearly, is that everyone who comes on to pay-as-you-go has not animmediateadvantage.
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That route would have avoided the complex and difficult arrangements needed to operate quotas and would have given consumers animmediateadvantage.
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