"take advantage of" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: takes advantage of [present, singular, third-person], taking advantage of [participle, present], took advantage of [past], taken advantage of [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|take<,,took,taken> advantage of|head=take advantage of}} take advantage of (third-person singular simple present takes advantage of, present participle taking advantage of, simple past took advantage of, past participle taken advantage of)
  1. To use or make use of. Translations (make use of): اِسْتَغَلَّ (istaḡalla) (Arabic), օգտվել (ōgtvel) (Armenian), aprofitar (Catalan), aprofitar-se (Catalan), gebruik maken van (Dutch), nýta (Faroese), gagnnýta (Faroese), käyttää (Finnish), hyödyntää (Finnish), profiter de (French), aproveitar (Galician), nutzen (German), Gebrauch machen von (German), kihasznál (Hungarian), hasznát veszi (Hungarian), sfruttare (Italian), approfittare (Italian), makihuhunu (Maori), whakamahi (Maori), abuza de (Romanian), exploata (Romanian), воспо́льзоваться (vospólʹzovatʹsja) (Russian), испо́льзовать (ispólʹzovatʹ) [transitive] (Russian), gabh brath air (Scottish Gaelic), aprovecharse (Spanish), aprovechar (Spanish), dra nytta av (Swedish), utnyttja (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-take_advantage_of-en-verb-kEtAegPg Disambiguation of 'make use of': 69 31
  2. To exploit. Translations (exploit): օգտվել (ōgtvel) (Armenian), aprofitar-se (Catalan), 壓榨 (yāzhà) (Chinese Mandarin), 剝削 (Chinese Mandarin), 剥削 (bōxuē) (Chinese Mandarin), voordeel trekken uit (Dutch), ekspluati (Esperanto), gagnnýta (Faroese), nýta til fyrimunar fyri (Faroese), käyttää hyväksi (Finnish), riistää (Finnish), hyödyntää (Finnish), aproveitar (Galician), abusar (Galician), ausnutzen (German), einen Vorteil ziehen aus (German), 𐌱𐌹𐍆𐌰𐌹𐌷𐍉𐌽 (bifaihōn) (Gothic), kihasznál (Hungarian), avvantaggiarsi (Italian), tek step wid (Jamaican Creole), mempergunakan (Malay), makihuhunu (Maori), tirar vantagem de (Portuguese), explorar (Portuguese), exploata (Romanian), эксплуати́ровать (ekspluatírovatʹ) (Russian), воспользоваться (vospolʹzovatʹsja) [perfective] (Russian), gabh brath air (Scottish Gaelic), aprovecharse (Spanish), utnyttja (Swedish)
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          "text": "He took advantage of the swimming pool every day of his visit.",
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          "english": "Fanny Hill",
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          "text": "But now this visit of my soft warm hand in those so sensible parts had put every thing into such ungovernable fury that, disdaining all further preluding, and taking advantage of my commodious posture, he made the storm fall where I scarce patiently expected, and where he was sure to lay it",
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          "text": "She took advantage of his desperation.",
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          "text": "He toyed with her emotions just to get her in bed. He took advantage of her.",
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          "ref": "1983, James C. H. Shen, “Beginnings of Endings”, in Robert Myers, editor, The U.S. & Free China: How the U.S. Sold Out Its Ally, Washington, D.C.: Acropolis Books Ltd., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 18:",
          "text": "Until two or three days before Carter's December 15 announcement, the State Department spokesman was still saying that no decisions had been reached on the timing and the modality for normalization of relations with Peking. Meanwhile, the administration had been keeping Congress, including its leadership, completely in the dark. Then, taking advantage of the Christmas holidays, during which no one was watching on Capitol Hill, Carter sprang his surprise.",
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          "ref": "1998, Ching Kwan Lee, Gender and the South China Miracle, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 45–46:",
          "text": "Confronted with the challenge of economic restructuring in the context of the noninterventionist policy of the Hong Kong government, local manufacturers had amore limited ability to pursue technological upgrading than their counterparts in Taiwan, South Korea, and Singapore had. Their survival strategy was to take advantage of the new availability of the massive supply of cheap labor and cheap industrial land in South China.",
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          "ref": "2023 December 1, Emma Sanders, “England 3-2 Netherlands”, in BBC Sport:",
          "text": "The World Cup runners-up were 2-0 down after 35 minutes when Lineth Beerensteyn punished defensive errors and took advantage of a passive midfield to score twice for the Netherlands.",
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          "_dis1": "24 76",
          "code": "hy",
          "lang": "Armenian",
          "roman": "ōgtvel",
          "sense": "exploit",
          "word": "օգտվել"
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          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "exploit",
          "word": "aprofitar-se"
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          "code": "cmn",
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          "roman": "yāzhà",
          "sense": "exploit",
          "word": "壓榨"
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          "sense": "exploit",
          "word": "剝削"
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          "roman": "bōxuē",
          "sense": "exploit",
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          "word": "ekspluati"
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          "word": "nýta til fyrimunar fyri"
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          "sense": "exploit",
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          "sense": "exploit",
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          "word": "tek step wid"
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          "word": "mempergunakan"
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          "sense": "exploit",
          "word": "tirar vantagem de"
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          "sense": "exploit",
          "word": "explorar"
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          "sense": "exploit",
          "word": "exploata"
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          "roman": "ekspluatírovatʹ",
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          "word": "эксплуати́ровать"
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          "roman": "vospolʹzovatʹsja",
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          "word": "gabh brath air"
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          "code": "es",
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          "sense": "exploit",
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          "_dis1": "24 76",
          "code": "sv",
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          "sense": "exploit",
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    "Terms with Catalan translations",
    "Terms with Dutch translations",
    "Terms with Esperanto translations",
    "Terms with Faroese translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with Galician translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Gothic translations",
    "Terms with Hungarian translations",
    "Terms with Italian translations",
    "Terms with Jamaican Creole translations",
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    "Terms with Mandarin translations",
    "Terms with Maori translations",
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    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations",
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    "Terms with Swedish translations"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "takes advantage of",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taking advantage of",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "took advantage of",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taken advantage of",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "take<,,took,taken> advantage of",
        "head": "take advantage of"
      },
      "expansion": "take advantage of (third-person singular simple present takes advantage of, present participle taking advantage of, simple past took advantage of, past participle taken advantage of)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He took advantage of the swimming pool every day of his visit.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "Fanny Hill",
          "ref": "1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "But now this visit of my soft warm hand in those so sensible parts had put every thing into such ungovernable fury that, disdaining all further preluding, and taking advantage of my commodious posture, he made the storm fall where I scarce patiently expected, and where he was sure to lay it",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To use or make use of."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "use",
          "use#verb"
        ],
        [
          "use",
          "use#noun"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "She took advantage of his desperation.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "He toyed with her emotions just to get her in bed. He took advantage of her.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1983, James C. H. Shen, “Beginnings of Endings”, in Robert Myers, editor, The U.S. & Free China: How the U.S. Sold Out Its Ally, Washington, D.C.: Acropolis Books Ltd., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 18:",
          "text": "Until two or three days before Carter's December 15 announcement, the State Department spokesman was still saying that no decisions had been reached on the timing and the modality for normalization of relations with Peking. Meanwhile, the administration had been keeping Congress, including its leadership, completely in the dark. Then, taking advantage of the Christmas holidays, during which no one was watching on Capitol Hill, Carter sprang his surprise.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Ching Kwan Lee, Gender and the South China Miracle, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 45–46:",
          "text": "Confronted with the challenge of economic restructuring in the context of the noninterventionist policy of the Hong Kong government, local manufacturers had amore limited ability to pursue technological upgrading than their counterparts in Taiwan, South Korea, and Singapore had. Their survival strategy was to take advantage of the new availability of the massive supply of cheap labor and cheap industrial land in South China.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 December 1, Emma Sanders, “England 3-2 Netherlands”, in BBC Sport:",
          "text": "The World Cup runners-up were 2-0 down after 35 minutes when Lineth Beerensteyn punished defensive errors and took advantage of a passive midfield to score twice for the Netherlands.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To exploit."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "exploit",
          "exploit#Verb"
        ]
      ]
    }
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "istaḡalla",
      "sense": "make use of",
      "word": "اِسْتَغَلَّ"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "ōgtvel",
      "sense": "make use of",
      "word": "օգտվել"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "make use of",
      "word": "aprofitar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "make use of",
      "word": "aprofitar-se"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "make use of",
      "word": "gebruik maken van"
    },
    {
      "code": "fo",
      "lang": "Faroese",
      "sense": "make use of",
      "word": "nýta"
    },
    {
      "code": "fo",
      "lang": "Faroese",
      "sense": "make use of",
      "word": "gagnnýta"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "make use of",
      "word": "käyttää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "make use of",
      "word": "hyödyntää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "make use of",
      "word": "profiter de"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "make use of",
      "word": "aproveitar"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "make use of",
      "word": "nutzen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "make use of",
      "word": "Gebrauch machen von"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "make use of",
      "word": "kihasznál"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "make use of",
      "word": "hasznát veszi"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "make use of",
      "word": "sfruttare"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "make use of",
      "word": "approfittare"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "make use of",
      "word": "makihuhunu"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "make use of",
      "word": "whakamahi"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "make use of",
      "word": "abuza de"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "make use of",
      "word": "exploata"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "vospólʹzovatʹsja",
      "sense": "make use of",
      "word": "воспо́льзоваться"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ispólʹzovatʹ",
      "sense": "make use of",
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "word": "испо́льзовать"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "make use of",
      "word": "gabh brath air"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "make use of",
      "word": "aprovecharse"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "make use of",
      "word": "aprovechar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "make use of",
      "word": "dra nytta av"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "make use of",
      "word": "utnyttja"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "ōgtvel",
      "sense": "exploit",
      "word": "օգտվել"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "exploit",
      "word": "aprofitar-se"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "yāzhà",
      "sense": "exploit",
      "word": "壓榨"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "exploit",
      "word": "剝削"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "bōxuē",
      "sense": "exploit",
      "word": "剥削"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "exploit",
      "word": "voordeel trekken uit"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "exploit",
      "word": "ekspluati"
    },
    {
      "code": "fo",
      "lang": "Faroese",
      "sense": "exploit",
      "word": "gagnnýta"
    },
    {
      "code": "fo",
      "lang": "Faroese",
      "sense": "exploit",
      "word": "nýta til fyrimunar fyri"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "exploit",
      "word": "käyttää hyväksi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "exploit",
      "word": "riistää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "exploit",
      "word": "hyödyntää"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "exploit",
      "word": "aproveitar"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "exploit",
      "word": "abusar"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "exploit",
      "word": "ausnutzen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "exploit",
      "word": "einen Vorteil ziehen aus"
    },
    {
      "code": "got",
      "lang": "Gothic",
      "roman": "bifaihōn",
      "sense": "exploit",
      "word": "𐌱𐌹𐍆𐌰𐌹𐌷𐍉𐌽"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "exploit",
      "word": "kihasznál"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "exploit",
      "word": "avvantaggiarsi"
    },
    {
      "code": "jam",
      "lang": "Jamaican Creole",
      "sense": "exploit",
      "word": "tek step wid"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "exploit",
      "word": "mempergunakan"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "exploit",
      "word": "makihuhunu"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "exploit",
      "word": "tirar vantagem de"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "exploit",
      "word": "explorar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "exploit",
      "word": "exploata"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ekspluatírovatʹ",
      "sense": "exploit",
      "word": "эксплуати́ровать"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "vospolʹzovatʹsja",
      "sense": "exploit",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "воспользоваться"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "exploit",
      "word": "gabh brath air"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "exploit",
      "word": "aprovecharse"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "exploit",
      "word": "utnyttja"
    }
  ],
  "word": "take advantage of"
}

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