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What does comparative advantage mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word comparative advantage? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. (economics) The ability to produce a particular good at a lower relative opportunity cost than another producer.
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The biggest qualm I have with fair trade is its basic ignorance of comparative advantage.
Rachid warned that African countries must not focus on the few products in which individual states enjoy a comparative advantage.
Legal practitioners have a vast comparative advantage over law schools in teaching practical lawyering skills.
The developing world probably does enjoy a comparative advantage in the production of certain agricultural goods.
What they need instead is an open marketplace in which to compete using their comparative advantage.
A more general point is to consider the economic concept of comparative advantage.

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