TAKEADVANTAGE

TAKEADVANTAGE is an English Idiom.

• Context:
  • It can have Word Forms:
    • take advantage
    • took advantage
    • will take advantage
    • taking advantage
• Example(s):
  • "He [took advantage] of the weather by going to the beach."
  • "He [took advantage] of the unemployment insurance benefits by using them to learning a new skill.
  • "Those in high office can [take advantage] of their privileged position to help those in need.".
  • ...
• Counter-Example(s):
  • "He [took advantage of] the unemployment insurance benefits by using them to vacation in Hawaii.
  • *"Those in high office can [bring advantage] of their privileged position to help those in need."
  • "Their privileged positions [brings advantage] to those in high office."
  • "He [took advantage] of the weather by going to the beach."
  • "Those in high office [take advantage of] the powerless."
  • "The football team [took advantage] during the second half of the game."
    • The Brazilian team strategically used its forward line to [take advantage] in the match, like it happened in minute 15, in which after the collection of corner shot, Jackson Martínez sent the ball to the bottom of the net.
• See: Multiword Expression, KEEPTABSON, KICKTHEBUCKET.

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References

2009a

• (WordNet, 2009) ⇒ http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=take%20advantage
  • S: (v) capitalize, capitalise, take advantage (draw advantages from) "he is capitalizing on her mistake"; "she took advantage of his absence to meet her lover"
  • S: (v) trespass, take advantage (make excessive use of) "You are taking advantage of my good will!"; "She is trespassing upon my privacy"

2009c

• (Wiktionary, 2009) ⇒ http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/take_advantage
  • Verb
    • 1. (intransitive) To profit from a situation. She took advantage of the economic crisis to exchange some money.

2009d

• (Wiktionary, 2009) ⇒ http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/take_advantage_of
  • Verb
    • 1. To make use of. He took advantage of the swimming pool every day of his visit.
    • 2. To exploit. She took advantage of his desparation.

2003

• (Sag et al., 2003) ⇒ Ivan A. Sag, Thomas Wasow, and Emily M. Bender. (2003). “Syntactic Theory: A Formal Introduction, 2nd edition." CSLI Publications.
  • We now have encountered two nonreferential NPs with highly restricted distributions, namely, the dummies there and it. Other NPs that share the properties of nonreferentiality and restricted distribution can be found in idioms - that is, in fixed (or partially fixed) combinations of words that are used to express meanings that aren't determined in the usual way from those words.
  • The idioms kick the bucket, keep tabs on, and take advantage of each have an idiosyncratic meaning, which requires that all of its parts co-occur. That is, the words in these idioms take on their idiomatic meanings only when they appear together with other parts of the idioms.

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