Advantageously
[,ædvən'teidʒəsli]
Definition
(adv.) Profitably; with advantage.
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Examples
- Some coal mines, advantageously situated, cannot be wrought on account of their barrenness. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- All my money is placed out most advantageously. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Formerly the carriers were so constructed that they would not work advantageously at a much greater angle than 45 deg. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- A round-about foreign trade of consumption can be carried on more advantageously by means of these metals than of almost any other goods. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- We are all ready, however, to give up all, from the Jerusalem Plank Road to Hatcher's Run, whenever the forces can be used advantageously. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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