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