advantaged
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- noun
- /ədˈvæn.tɪdʒd/
- Many advantaged students have access to better resources for their education.
Examples
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She grew up among advantaged peers who had the opportunity to travel and study abroad.
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The program aims to support advantaged children in low-income neighborhoods.
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Today, women have more advantages than men.
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However, there were still some advantages that remained even after two years.
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People will be born with all kinds of advantages and disadvantages.
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It only took a few unfair advantages for us to get here.
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On the other hand, we shouldn't discount the advantages of being fat, of raising sufficient capital.
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And so there's, there's, there's clear advantages there.
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We're in a place where we're in a place where there's a lot of business advantages to hire somebody who's done it for a year somewhere else.
Antonyms
How Privileged
Surface Forms
Morphology
advantaged = advantaged (transparent) = advantage + ed
The shift from the adjective 'advantaged' to the collective noun meaning 'the people who are advantaged' is a regular and highly predictable conversion.
Etymology
Advantaged used as a noun comes from advantage and the old word avant meaning 'in front'. So the 'advantaged' are the people who are 'ahead' and have more benefits or a better social position.