undue advantage

collocation in English

meaningsofundueandadvantage

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undue
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ʌnˈdʒuː/us
/ʌnˈduː/
to a level that is more than is necessary, acceptable, ...
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advantage
noun
uk
/ədˈvɑːn.tɪdʒ/us
/ədˈvæn.t̬ɪdʒ/
a condition giving a greater chance ...
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(Definition ofundueandadvantagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Gentleman was careful to impress upon us that noundueadvantagewas being taken of his legislation by property owners generally.
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That gave anundueadvantage, according to time, to the party of the long speaker.
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They thus enjoy important immunities of which some takeundueadvantage.
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It is penalising the parents who have well-developed children and subsidising, or giving anundueadvantageto, parents with less-developed boys or girls.
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Many others have takenundueadvantage, which we deplore, and my noble friend has already referred to that.
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They are to give an assurance that noundueadvantagewill be taken by them of the situation for enhancing prices.
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Rather than go to possible expense, they allowundueadvantageto be taken of them.
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Tax avoidance is only a bad principle when it leads to one particular section of the community taking anundueadvantageover the rest.
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Do not let us takeundueadvantageof that great blessing.
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Let them see that we are not takingundueadvantageof the powers.
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Are the employers of agricultural labourers getting anundueadvantageas compared with the rest of the community by the payment of low wages?
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I should think that on the whole one month's prostration would be sufficient to prevent anyone taking anundueadvantageof this proviso.
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We are not talking about cornering the market or some unjust or someundueadvantagebeing taken of an individual's position.
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He talks aboutundueadvantagebeing given to a local authority.
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That percentage could be made on such a basis that he would get real and adequate compensation but noundueadvantage.
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But before we are convinced we want the trial to be under conditions that will not giveundueadvantageto the manufacturers.
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I have no wish that slum landlords should get anundueadvantage.
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People are anxious to make their contribution, are anxious not to takeundueadvantageof the country's crisis and the present emergency.
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There might have been a fear that the trade union movement would takeundueadvantageof the situation.
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They are there because it is far too much trouble to erect the apparatus necessary to restrain people from getting anundueadvantage.
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