advantageous position
collocation in Englishmeaningsofadvantageousandposition
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advantageous
adjective
uk/ˌæd.vænˈteɪ.dʒəs/us/ˌæd.vænˈteɪ.dʒəs/
giving advantages or helping to make you ...
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position
noun
uk/pəˈzɪʃ.ən/us/pəˈzɪʃ.ən/
the place where something or someone is, often in relation to ...
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(Definition ofadvantageousandpositionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This obviously left the eldest daughter in a veryadvantageousposition.
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For one thing, it might be anadvantageouspositionto occupy.
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In so doing, the courts retain anadvantageouspositionin the power relationship with the governments.
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They are in a particularlyadvantageouspositionfor that purpose.
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They will be in an immensely moreadvantageousposition.
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We want to maintain that veryadvantageousposition.
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These special types of creditor are given thatadvantageousposition.
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Therefore, he is in a moreadvantageousposition.
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To that extent the company gets anadvantageousposition.
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The combined force of these arguments is so compelling that the courts have eventually gained anadvantageouspositionfavored to their own interests.
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Certainly joint family households, with a labour force of at least four members, were in anadvantageouspositionto retain and increase their landholdings.
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This result is also important to the courts politically and institutionally because they have retained anadvantageouspositionin the power relationship between the courts and the governments.
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With close personnel, political and technical links with parents shipping companies, these agencies are in anadvantageouspositionin getting quality seafarers and relatively better regulated.
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If they are not, there is no automatic right to benefit from theiradvantageousposition.
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There are one or two other things which stem from ouradvantageouspositionfollowing devaluation.
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That gives a wholly misleading impression to the country of theadvantageouspositionof mental nurses.
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I do not see why we should place football pool promoters in this veryadvantageousposition.
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A legally assisted person is therefore in an extremelyadvantageousposition.
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That will not put him in a veryadvantageouspositionas regards competition.
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On that score alone we are in a lessadvantageouspositionthan foreign industrial nations.
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We should be in anadvantageouspositionbecause of our location.
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That entailed the withdrawal of the armoured brigade from theadvantageouspositionwhich it had attained.
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It inevitably places some categories of citizens in a lessadvantageouspositionthan others.
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It would give them anadvantageouspositionthat no one else in the tax system possesses.
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The top hat pension schemes draw theiradvantageouspositionfrom insurance companies.
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