second-mover advantage
 at an advantage
in a more powerful or successful position than other people or things:
With the dollar weakening, US exporters will be at an advantage.
Your experience as a legal secretary undoubtedly puts you at an advantage in terms of legal knowledge.
 take advantage of sth
to use your skills, resources, etc. or a particular situation in order to get an opportunity for yourself:
Have you taken full advantage of any tax-free savings plans?
 be to sb's advantage(alsowork to sb's advantage)
to give a person or organization an advantage compared to other people or organizations:
The bank thought e-commerce could work to its advantage because these markets tended to be highly protected by regulation.
 use sth to your (own) advantage
to use your skills, resources, etc. to get an opportunity for yourself:
She had some important contacts in the government, which she used to her advantage.

Examples of advantage

advantage
However, the use of linguistic generation techniques also has practical advantages.
An information-state approach allows one to fruitfully combine the two approaches, using the advantages of each.
While the stochastic components do not outperform manually tuned rule-based systems, they have advantages in adaptability to other languages and domains.
One of the advantages of myelinating cultures is the ability to visualize axons that are only partially myelinated.
There are several advantages to the density matrix notation.
In contrast, a direct implementation benefits from all the advantages of developing in a highlevel programming environment.
Permutation-free calculi have the advantages of a sequent calculus system, whilst reflecting the structure of normal natural deductions.
Second, if such benefits are achieved advantages for these businessmen, what are their ascribed advantages ?
We interpret genetic-algorithm learning as a powerful representation of trialand-error learning which has important advantages over many other models in the literature.
There are several advantages to modeling adaptation in this way.
Examples include predator avoidance, hydrodynamic advantages or searching for food [22, 24].
I construct myself as a double visitor in order to make clear what the museum's internal structural advantages and shortcomings are.
Lexical feedback might offer some advantages in phoneme identification by making phoneme decisions line up with decisions made at the lexical level.
However, this relationship between levels does not necessarily hold throughout language processing; there may be cases in which feedback could indeed confer advantages.
An implication is that the target article's metaphors of resistance to change may have heuristic advantages over those of momentum.
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Collocations withadvantage

advantage

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adaptive advantage
But what would confer an adaptiveadvantage on a syntactic faculty that just generated meaningless and imperceptible syntactic structures?
added advantage
An addedadvantage of the portfolio career is the freedom it gives individuals to tailor their own careers.
additional advantage
An additionaladvantage is a convenient synchronization between the life spans of the evaluator processes.
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