I.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a deprived/disadvantaged background
▪ The school has a high percentage of pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds.
economically disadvantaged (=poor)
▪ Many of our students are from economically disadvantaged backgrounds.
the advantages and disadvantages of sth
▪ the advantages and disadvantages of living in a big city
the advantages outweigh the disadvantages (=the advantages are more valuable)
▪ When it comes down to working from home, you have to decide if the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
competitive
▪ The extent of the company's competitive disadvantage was revealed by internal and external benchmarking against sectoral best practice.
▪ These out-lets thus found themselves in a position of total competitive disadvantage.
▪ If they do so, however, this would put their own nationals at a competitive disadvantage.
▪ Students might also argue that this would put banks at a competitive disadvantage relative to other financial firms. 5.
▪ Banks from both countries were able to lend at low margins, placing rivals at a competitive disadvantage.
▪ Reserve requirements on banks will have to be standardized if some banks are not to suffer a competitive disadvantage. 3.
▪ No longer will Northumberland farmers be at an artificial competitive or financial disadvantage.
▪ There's no competitive disadvantage for them in the Intel decision.
considerable
▪ She is also hopelessly in love - a considerable professional disadvantage.
▪ A lizard without its tail is at a considerable disadvantage.
▪ Yet with such infrequent investigations, there is often considerable disadvantage for the schools and the children.
distinct
▪ Thus, some see these requirements as distinct disadvantages to comparing countries from a given region.
▪ In this particular case Abraham is at a very distinct disadvantage.
▪ It would put the vertically challenged at a distinct disadvantage again.
▪ It was a hot day and Andy must have started with a distinct dehydration disadvantage.
▪ He was also a Roman Catholic, which in the intolerant atmosphere of the 1920s was a distinct disadvantage.
▪ One of the few local contestants was at a distinct disadvantage.
▪ An imagination nurtured among northern latitudes is here at a distinct disadvantage.
economic
▪ It claims this is putting Britain at an economic disadvantage.
▪ Barlow summarized: This general statement of disadvantage was reinforced by more specific observations on both social and economic disadvantage.
▪ This is to our economic disadvantage.
▪ Minor impairments, inherent characteristics and environmental, cultural or economic disadvantages do not count as disabilities.
educational
▪ Chapter 8 treats the educational disadvantages of women amongst other topics.
▪ This suspiciously resembles the city technology colleges, a Conservative initiative that tried to introduce business methods into areas of educational disadvantage.
ethnic
▪ The differences between these two ways of approaching ethnic disadvantage show most clearly in the case of education.
▪ Any correction of ethnic disadvantage, therefore, has to focus both on racism and on the mechanisms of class disadvantage.
▪ We have presented two possible positions in the explanation of ethnic disadvantage.
grave
▪ Some of them are potent ganglion blocking agents and were introduced into clinical medicine, but they had grave disadvantages.
▪ All these groups will suffer grave social disadvantages.
great
▪ When the dimension of gender is added, we can see even greater disadvantage and inequality for females.
▪ The greatest disadvantage: It isolates you.
▪ In applications requiring frequent accurate positioning this poorly-damped response can be a great disadvantage.
▪ If you lose these you will put yourself at an even greater disadvantage.
main
▪ The main disadvantage is that political or economic instability within the country may cause problems outside the control of the parent company.
▪ The main disadvantage was the current state of the area.
▪ The main disadvantages emphasised are not humanistic or rehabilitative objections, but financial ones.
▪ The main disadvantage is that a computer with a hard disk is more expensive.
▪ The main disadvantage of the network approach is that areas which are not covered are thereby excluded completely.
▪ The main disadvantage is normally the cost of transport for bulky raw materials, or fuel or finished goods.
▪ There seem to be two main disadvantages of this system of fragmented tax authorities.
▪ Ill health was his main disadvantage.
major
▪ With long-term use dependence and withdrawal effects can become major disadvantages.
▪ Be warned, however, that punishment has two major disadvantages.
▪ The major disadvantage of doing so is that the data formats required by the two packages are very different.
▪ There were three major disadvantages with this arrangement.
▪ A major disadvantage of chemical control is that pesticides are now applied very inefficiently.
▪ A daughter-in-law on the stage was a major social disadvantage.
obvious
▪ One obvious disadvantage of a telephone survey is that it does not represent people who are too poor to afford telephones.
▪ There are obvious disadvantages in such a course.
▪ Additionally, we have fought to preserve the path despite its obvious disadvantage to us personally.
▪ They explore one side of their personality and develop one aspect of their skills with a single-mindedness which has obvious disadvantages.
only
▪ Its only disadvantage is that it isn't as quite as easy as plugging in a coprocessor card.
▪ Its only disadvantage is the possible acidity of the backing paper.
▪ The only disadvantage of protein skimming is the loss of trace elements, but these are easy to replace as an additive.
▪ The only disadvantage is that the final sample is unlikely to have exactly n members though this may not be very important.
▪ In most cases the only disadvantage of such divisions is that you must pass through one room to reach the other.
racial
▪ Additionally, he accepted the need to tackle racial disadvantage and other social issues.
▪ Other reactions have concentrated on the issue of the interplay between inner-city decay and racial disadvantage in contemporary Britain.
▪ Physical and mental ill-health, social disadvantage, and racial disadvantage are other areas that might be cited as examples.
▪ Courts were generally regarded as fair, and in some cases as attempting to compensate for racial disadvantage.
relative
▪ List the different methods by which this modification value could be specified, and discuss their relative advantages and disadvantages. 3.12.
▪ They are at a relative disadvantage because individuals without any formal qualifications are more likely to experience unemployment.
▪ Each has their relative advantages and disadvantages.
▪ In making these decisions, people will have to weigh up the relative advantages and disadvantages of the various alternative assets.
serious
▪ These vaccines have two serious disadvantages, however.
▪ It did have one serious disadvantage.
▪ My best friends, Ada, Nora and Nives, all had bicycles, which put me at a serious disadvantage.
▪ Being fearless is a serious disadvantage.
▪ The evidence is overwhelming that the unrepresented party suffers serious disadvantage in this forum.
▪ This is usually around 50 percent, which can be a serious disadvantage.
severe
▪ In reality, integration failed to deliver the promised advantages and had severe disadvantages.
social
▪ Feminists in particular make much of the social disadvantage under which women suffer.
▪ In this wider sense, the problem of special needs is largely a problem of social disadvantage and poverty.
▪ Physical and mental ill-health, social disadvantage, and racial disadvantage are other areas that might be cited as examples.
▪ Barlow summarized: This general statement of disadvantage was reinforced by more specific observations on both social and economic disadvantage.
▪ A daughter-in-law on the stage was a major social disadvantage.
▪ All these groups will suffer grave social disadvantages.
■ VERB
outweigh
▪ Its advantages may even outweigh its disadvantages.
▪ For many years, the benefits of the expensive system greatly outweighed the disadvantages.
▪ For smaller animals like the mountain hare, the benefits of camouflage against a background of snow no doubt outweigh the disadvantages.
▪ She says the advantages for children going on line far outweigh the disadvantages, particularly as on line applies to schoolwork.
▪ On balance, the advantages to be gained from panels outweigh the disadvantages. 10.
▪ The advantages clearly outweighed the disadvantages.
▪ On the whole the interviewees believed that the advantages greatly outweighed the disadvantages.
▪ These benefits, which accrued from inflation, far outweighed its disadvantages, such as increased prices for equipment and other working capital.
overcome
▪ These countries have worked very hard to overcome their locational disadvantages.
▪ And its technical skill, vast financial reserves and marketing savvy give it the potential to overcome any early disadvantage.
place
▪ In this respect orthodox medicine may have placed itself at some disadvantage to its complementary counterparts.
put
▪ The farm owners weren't working class, so the ways this put them at a disadvantage is irrelevant.
▪ Some may argue that democratic investment clubs put members at a disadvantage in times of high volatility, limiting their flexibility.
▪ It puts them at a disadvantage.
▪ In two senses the rural environment currently puts children at a disadvantage.
suffer
▪ He suffered from the small disadvantage that he had never been to Rhodesia.
▪ But if your score is above five points, you suffer from the disadvantages as well.
▪ Feminists in particular make much of the social disadvantage under which women suffer.
▪ It suffers the same disadvantages, plus some new ones of its own.
▪ A group of several chariots is certainly powerful but suffers all the disadvantages of large monsters.
▪ However, it suffers from several disadvantages.
▪ The excluded black and white citizens in the urban areas seem set to continue to suffer deprivation and disadvantage.
▪ Rather than being rewarded by the social security system, that home owner suffered a disadvantage.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the disadvantaged
▪ In a letter to his clients, Romer told them he had given their money to the disadvantaged.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Like many other black families, his family had to struggle to overcome social and economic disadvantage.
▪ Our goal is to try to provide financial help people in our community with a lot of disadvantages.
▪ The main disadvantage of being a nurse is working irregular hours.
▪ The proposal has some major disadvantages.
▪ Your main disadvantage is your lack of job experience.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A review of on-site fire protection equipment available for fighting fires in high-bay warehouses stating its advantages and disadvantages.
▪ She says the advantages for children going on line far outweigh the disadvantages, particularly as on line applies to schoolwork.
▪ Soviet space science suffers the disadvantage of poor technology, particularly in electronics, which is years behind that of the West.
▪ The Association is on record for many years high-lighting the disadvantages of this type of pay scheme.
▪ The intertidal zones circumvent the two outstanding disadvantages of marine living.
▪ The main disadvantages, apart from cost, is their considerable weight and the fact that they can chip.
▪ When this is done, there is a tendency for other artists to be compared with the leader to their disadvantage.
▪ While the yield to maturity is the single most commonly used measure of yield, it nevertheless has several disadvantages.
II.verbEXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And the selective system does not seem to disadvantage those at the bottom of the class.
▪ Asked if he thought an over-emphasis on sport could disadvantage black kids in academic subjects, he answered: No.
▪ Geographical accident must not be allowed to disadvantage individuals in their ability to gain access to good local care.
▪ However, contemporary interpretations of customary law largely disadvantage women.
▪ In particular, there are complex rules which disadvantage married women.
▪ She did best in the interview, the part of the application process which was said to disadvantage comprehensive school students.
▪ The use of discriminatory language can and does disadvantage women and members of ethnic minority groups.
▪ There are two forms of inequality related to occupational pensions which also serve to disadvantage very elderly women, especially widows.