What does "take advantage" mean?

To profit from a situation deliberately.

What is a synonym for "take advantage"?

Common synonyms include: abuses, capitalise, capitalize, profit making business, seized, trespass.

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Verb

1
To profit from a situation deliberately. intransitive
"She took advantage of the economic crisis to exchange some money."
2
draw advantages from wordnet
3
To make use of something.
"Nonetheless, some insect prey take advantage of clutter by hiding in it. Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them."
4
make excessive use of wordnet

"She took advantage of the economic crisis to exchange some money."