taken advantage
collocation in Englishmeaningsoftakenandadvantage
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taken
adjective
uk/ˈteɪ.kən/us/ˈteɪ.kən/
believing something to be deserving of respect ...
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advantage
noun
uk/ədˈvɑːn.tɪdʒ/us/ədˈvæn.t̬ɪdʒ/
a condition giving a greater chance ...
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(Definition oftakenandadvantagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoftaken advantage
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Chiefs have become hostile and havetakenadvantageof youths by levying excessive fines.
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Unfortunately, few havetakenadvantageof this opportunity to study empirically cognitive constructs at such a basic level of development.
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This characteristic can betakenadvantageof by including the second time-derivative a2v/8t2 in the intermittency detection.
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Second, constraints aretakenadvantageof by detecting information granted by the constraints rather than by internalizing them.
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Composers havetakenadvantageof this relationship in many ways.
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This istakenadvantageof by a cosmetics industry which produces enormous numbers of products to disguise aging.
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Once again, the record industry hastakenadvantageof a propitious situation.
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These results might betakenadvantageof in the classroom.
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The child is a necessity, and istakenadvantageof.
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Typically, the wrapper is unfolded and disappears, leading to very efficient code which hastakenadvantageof strictness.
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More recently, several investigators havetakenadvantageof naturally occurring stressful experiences to examine children's memories of traumatic events.
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Investigators havetakenadvantageof other extraordinary longitudinal data sets to examine risk and protective factors for adjustment over the life course.
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Perception always takes advantage of constraints, but this does not imply that all conceivable constraints aretakenadvantageof.
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Leaders have nottakenadvantageof the democratic opportunity to change the incentive structures that have encouraged the subordination of the courts.
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At the same time, the banks hadtakenadvantageof the fixed exchange rate to take out large low-interest-rate dollar loans.
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Some aretakenadvantageof by local recording companies who do not deliver the full royalty payments to which the musicians are entitled.
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The regulations are used by mediocre men as the means of their self-protection, andtakenadvantageof by government clerks as sources of profit.
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This change, which had become noticeable by mid-century, was speeded up by those who hadtakenadvantage of the expanded opportunities for higher education.
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The author has also clearlytakenadvantageof every opportunity which timing could have offered.
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We havetakenadvantageof this fact in formulating an account based on constraint conjunction.
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