单词 | advantaged |
释义 | advantagedadj. 1. Having an advantage; superior, privileged. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > [adjective] > provided with advantages advantaged1612 favoured1725 featherbedded1954 1612 J. Cotta Short Discouerie Dangers Ignorant Practisers Physicke iii. ii. 130 The first haue therefore more certaine vnderstanding, the second somewhat more aduantaged coniecture. 1717 Belgrade 8 The mighty Chief revolving this Design, Intently viewing their extended Line,..O'erlooks their Numbers, and advantag'd Ground. 1774 London Evening Post 21 Apr. The House..confused him so much, that the little argument he had, he took not as a military officer the advantaged ground. 1855 Rec. Great Fire Newcastle & Gateshead 106 The High Level afforded an advantaged position for beholding the terrible scene of conflagration. 1858 Brit. & Foreign Medico-chirurg. Rev. 22 349 If, metaphorically speaking, matter is refined and ennobled by its union to mind, it is the mind that is really the advantaged party in the connexion. 1904 Commons June 272/1 It seems to me that in many ways the women in trades unions occupy an advantaged position. 1974 J. D. Laing & R. J. Morrison in A. Rapoport Game Theory as Theory of Confl. Resol. ii. 229 If only one of the models identifies an advantaged player, then the absence of a similar attribution by the other model attenuates the effect of the bargaining advantage. 1992 Atlantic Feb. 91/2 The next generation in SF is that of the cyberpunks, whose works are still in progress and so not yet within hindsight's advantaged purview. 2. spec. Privileged in terms of wealth or social status. Frequently preceded by modifying adverb. Opposed to disadvantaged. ΚΠ 1885 J. Cash in J. W. Cross George Eliot's Life I. 407 This desire to bring her less advantaged neighbors nearer to her own level, to meet them on common ground. 1917 M. K. Simkhovitch City Worker's World in Amer. iii. 46 A belief that the working class should labour for the benefit of the advantaged classes. 1970 J. J. Shapiro tr. J. Habermas Toward Rational Society vi. 120 Student activists..are predominantly..from economically advantaged social strata. 1984 W. A. Collins Devel. during Middle Childhood Introd. 19 Economically disadvantaged children are three times more likely to be heavy television viewers than are more advantaged youngsters. 2002 Times Educ. Suppl. 27 Sept. (School Sci. Suppl.) 17/1 Advantaged parents were more likely to contest admission decisions. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1612 |
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