Advantage and Necessity

Advantage

Advantage noun - The more favorable condition or position in a competition.

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Necessity and advantage are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Necessity" instead a noun "Advantage".

Necessity noun - Something necessary, indispensable, or unavoidable.

Usage example: on any road trip, accurate maps are a necessity

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Advantage and necessity are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Advantage" instead a noun "Necessity".

good	good advantage	good necessity
best	best advantage	best necessity
sheer	sheer advantage	sheer necessity
obvious	obvious advantage	obvious necessity
Other adjectives: powerful, actual, important, practical, new, psychological, political, temporary, military, economic, financial, strategic, technological, tactical.

Knowing when to transform the dragon into its other Wings to take advantage also becomes a necessity (if it wasn't already by this point in the game).

Source: Video Game / Panzer Dragoon
Because the intended victims of these traps have the advantage of numbers, the traps' designs must by necessity be simple enough to be easily mass-produced.

Source: Simple, yet Awesome
Narrator All Along: The first episode begins with a woman's voice introducing our planet, discussing the necessity of animals and man learning to get along and cautioning against despoiling the beautiful jungle for our own advantage.

Source: Anime / The Jungle Book

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