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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
disadvantaged
adjective
COLLOCATIONS 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.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
most
▪ This would concentrate finance on infrastructural improvement projects, especially those which benefited the most disadvantaged groups.
▪ How can 565 children from the most disadvantaged families in one of the poorest school districts in Texas be succeeding?
▪ Life expectancy at birth in the most developed countries at over 80 years is double that of the most disadvantaged countries.
▪ As a welfare program, the minimum wage misses the mark because it worsens the status of the most disadvantaged youths.
▪ Communities which suffer most from crime are often the most disadvantaged in the first place.
▪ Then, the most disadvantaged will truly be left behind.
▪ It is reserved for the most disadvantaged and the most disabled people who need more financial assistance than others.
socially
▪ The probability of socially disadvantaged children being identified as having special needs is very much greater than in other children.
▪ Another criticism of the Leeds adjournment system was that it added further stress to socially disadvantaged people already living under stressful conditions.
▪ Their family backgrounds are also usually socially disadvantaged and being in care can be stigmatizing and isolating.
■ NOUN
area
▪ Our challenge is to balance these priorities: maximising Glasgow's metropolitan strengths, while addressing the needs of its disadvantaged areas.
▪ At the same time, considerable effort has gone into promoting the economic development of the city's disadvantaged areas.
▪ The major weight of its pressure, however, seldom concerns the interests of underprivileged groups in disadvantaged areas.
child
▪ The probability of socially disadvantaged children being identified as having special needs is very much greater than in other children.
▪ The program gives money to primarily low-income schools to beef up staff and resources for individualized instruction to disadvantaged children.
▪ There was a tendency to acquiesce in low expectations of disadvantaged children and to define their needs in emotional rather than educational terms.
▪ The Annie E.. Casey Foundation, a well-endowed charity dedicated to disadvantaged children, moved to the city last year.
group
▪ This would concentrate finance on infrastructural improvement projects, especially those which benefited the most disadvantaged groups.
▪ This is the most multiply disadvantaged group at City.
▪ The time has come for a radical re-examination of the provision of services for this particularly disadvantaged group of people.
▪ Most projects had been efficiently run, and many had helped disadvantaged groups.
▪ Even then his interests lay with the disadvantaged groups.
▪ They consist of highly mobile young people and families, commuters, and tourists, as well as disadvantaged groups such as refugees.
▪ Mr Brown said the initiative would build fair and effective education systems, and create opportunities for girls and disadvantaged groups.
people
▪ Many disadvantaged people will find an outlet for their abilities through whatever channels remain open.
▪ He observes the budget for this program for disadvantaged people has been reduced by 50 percent in the last eight years.
▪ The early testers believed that tests would open doors to disadvantaged people, not close them.
▪ He speaks on behalf of millions of poor and disadvantaged people who have too few advocates.
▪ Donation and inheritance transactions accounted for a relatively small area of the farmland transferred to disadvantaged people.
▪ Another criticism of the Leeds adjournment system was that it added further stress to socially disadvantaged people already living under stressful conditions.
▪ Larger discounts have been proposed for projects that allocate larger shares of equity to disadvantaged people.
position
▪ Further evidence of the disadvantaged position of older women in relation to men can be gained from information on the distribution of income.
▪ A growing body of literature is currently drawing attention to the disadvantaged position of women in society today.
student
▪ Educational maintenance allowances of up to £40 a week will be piloted for disadvantaged students.
▪ The Engineering School had an extensive program of its own for disadvantaged students.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Booth invented schemes to help the disadvantaged in the community.
▪ Improved nutrition will help disadvantaged children perform better in school.
▪ Quinn argued that an increase in the minimum wage would help the most disadvantaged Americans.
▪ The club runs programs for disadvantaged children in the inner city areas.
▪ The university has announced plans to increase the number of students from minority and disadvantaged groups.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He speaks on behalf of millions of poor and disadvantaged people who have too few advocates.
▪ Many disadvantaged people will find an outlet for their abilities through whatever channels remain open.
▪ Once again the disadvantaged have their disadvantage confirmed.
▪ The Engineering School had an extensive program of its own for disadvantaged students.
▪ This would concentrate finance on infrastructural improvement projects, especially those which benefited the most disadvantaged groups.
▪ Whatever the level of national economic success, certain areas will remain disadvantaged.
▪ While at Stanford, Wender interned for various community organizations and realized there were few services solely for disadvantaged or in-crisis children.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
disadvantaged

1610s, past participle adjective from disadvantage (v.). Of races or classes deprived of opportunities for advancement, from 1902, a word popularized by sociologists. As a noun, shorthand for disadvantaged persons, it is attested by 1939.

Wiktionary
disadvantaged
  1. 1 Lacking an advantage relative to another. 2 poor; in financial difficulties. v

  2. (en-past of: disadvantage)

WordNet
disadvantaged

adj. marked by deprivation especially of the necessities of life or healthful environmental influences; "a childhood that was unhappy and deprived, the family living off charity"; "boys from a deprived environment, wherein the family life revealed a pattern of neglect, moral degradation, and disregard for law" [syn: deprived]

Wikipedia
Disadvantaged

The "disadvantaged" is a generic term for individuals or groups of people who:

  • Face special problems such as physical or mental disability
  • Lack money or economic support
  • Are politically deemed to be without sufficient power or other means of influence

Usage examples of "disadvantaged".

His face had a tough, pinched, disadvantaged look which did not go with the Valiant hair or the beachboy body.

The produce, grain, and meat provided from these collectives will be distributed at no charge to recipients of public subsistence allotments, thus easing the burden on Jefferson's neediest families while providing high-quality foods to the economically disadvantaged.

His disadvantaged, disenfranchised American counterpart is offered not only the Jew but the Negro and Catholic—together with any group, way of life or system of belief not harmonious with his own, stamped with the label enemy in large red letters.

And what we will want to examine are these natural differentiations as they moved into dissociations (and extreme sexual polarizations) that disadvantaged one or the other sex (and usually both)at each of the six or so major epochs/stages/structures we will be examining.

Of course, as chief operating officer of the fund, I drew a nice salary for my efforts, but the bulk of the money went, at Ultima's insistence, into a charitable trust to help the homeless and disadvantaged.

Since Geordi had occassionally felt disadvantaged in his life over his blindness, he could relate to them.

If they put the arm on you in a disadvantaged neighborhood you go in past the empty press lot.

It is true that some technologically backward and disadvantaged groups, such as urban Negroes, are characterized by high rates of geographical mobility, usually within the same neighborhood or county.

Grandfather loved to tell stories of these criminals, how they had tried to excuse their own crimes by pleading that they were economically disadvantaged or infected with the disease of substance abuse, and how the Lone Eagles- many of whom had overcome poverty or addiction themselves-had dispatched them with firing squads and left them posted around the edge of their territory as NO TRESPASSING signs that even the illiterate could read.

Grandfather loved to tellof these criminals, how they had tried to excuse their ownby pleading that they were economically disadvantaged orwith the disease of substance abuse, and how the Lone many of whom had overcome poverty or addictionhad dispatched them with firing squads and left themaround the edge of their territory as NO TRESPASSINGthat even the illiterate could read.

Social and political reform movements during the Progressive Era of the early twentieth century helped empower disadvantaged groups while at the same time ending the federal government's long-term policy of open immigration.

I think your insensitive behavior toward this female makes me conclude that you are mentally disadvantaged, visually impaired, and that your parents were unmarried.