It might be to your advantage (=it might help you) to take a computer course of some kind. 2 [ countable, uncountable] a good or useful feature that something has advantage of One of the many advantages of living in New York is that you can eat out at almost any time of day. advantage over This printer has several advantages over conventional printers. 3 → take advantage of somebody 4 → take advantage of something (to do something) 5 → use/turn something to your/good advantage 6 → show something to (good/great) advantage 7 → advantage somebody COLLOCATIONS – Meanings 1 & 2 verbs have an advantage (also enjoy an advantage formal) Our parents didn’t have all the advantages that we have.