take advantage

Questions about take advantage

What does take advantage mean?

take advantage means "draw advantages from". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for take advantage?

Close synonyms include capitalize, capitalise, trespass. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is take advantage a common word?

take advantage is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.