- giving an advantage; "a contract advantageous to our country"; "socially advantageous to entertain often"
- appropriate for achieving a particular end; implies a lack of concern for fairness
- (advantageousness) favorableness: the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome
- Direct non-financial, work-related benefits accruing to the state.
- trade based on comparative advantage, then, covers a larger set of circumstances while still including the case of absolute advantage and hence is a more general theory.