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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
advantaged
adjective
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▪ Our refining costs remain lower than those of the industry and we are taking steps to improve on this advantaged position.
▪ The advantaged will become an interest group, perhaps a social class or status group.
▪ The expanding region will attract capital for investment and workers will migrate from the less advantaged areas.
▪ The hon. Gentleman came not from an especially poor background, but not from an especially advantaged one either.
▪ We are thinking of the advantaged children.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Advantaged

Advantage \Ad*van"tage\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Advantaged; p. pr. & vb. n. Advantaging.] [F. avantager, fr. avantage. See Advance.] To give an advantage to; to further; to promote; to benefit; to profit.

The truth is, the archbishop's own stiffness and averseness to comply with the court designs, advantaged his adversaries against him.
--Fuller.

What is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?
--Luke ix. 25.

To advantage one's self of, to avail one's self of. [Obs.]

Wiktionary
advantaged

vb. (en-past of: advantage)

WordNet
advantaged

adj. blessed with advantages; "she is more advantaged than her cousin"; "born into the favored classes" [syn: favored]

Usage examples of "advantaged".

I would have advantaged little O-aa nothing to have known that this creature that was intent on reaching up and dragging her down into the sea was Tylosaurus, one of the rulers of the Cretaceous seas of the outer crust, eons ago.