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单词 disadvantage
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disadvantage1 noundisadvantage2 verb
disadvantagedis‧ad‧van‧tage1 /ˌdɪsədˈvɑːntɪdʒ $ -ˈvæn-/ ●●● W2 noun [countable, uncountable] Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • 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 THE 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.
Thesaurus
THESAURUS
noun [countable] a bad feature that something has, which makes it less good or less useful than other things: · What do you think are the disadvantages of nuclear energy?· This car uses a lot of fuel, which is a major disadvantage.
noun [countable] a bad feature that something has, although it has advantages that are usually more important: · One of the main drawbacks is the price.
noun [countable] especially spoken a bad feature that something has: · All of these designs have both their good points and bad points.
noun [singular] the disadvantage of a situation that in most other ways seems good or enjoyable: · It’s a great job. The only downside is that I don’t get much free time.
Longman Language Activatora bad feature of something
a bad feature of something, for example a way in which it causes problems or is worse than other things of the same kind: · The proposal has some major disadvantages.disadvantage of: · The main disadvantage of being a nurse is working irregular hours.
a disadvantage of something, that makes it seem less attractive - use this especially when something seems good in other ways: · It's a good-looking car - the only drawback is the price.drawback of: · One of the major drawbacks of being famous is the lack of privacy.drawback to: · High house prices are one drawback to economic growth.
someone or something that is a disadvantage because they are likely to make you less successful: · In those days, a politician's wife who did not hold traditional views could be a liability.liability to: · The product that was once so popular is now a liability to the company.serious liability: · The bank realized that the dispute was becoming a serious liability in doing business
the limits on how good someone or something can be or what they are able to do: · I think we've done a wonderful job, considering the limitations we've had to work under.· We made an inspection of the building's resources and limitations.
the disadvantage of a plan or situation that in most other ways seems good: · The band sounds great. The only downside is the quality of the recording.the downside of: · The downside of the New Economy is the forced resettlement of villagers.
something that makes it more difficult for someone to succeed
something that makes it more difficult for you to succeed or to do what you want, especially compared to other people: · 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.
something that prevents you from doing something as well as you could: · Not being able to drive is a real handicap if you live in the country.handicap of: · The team had a good season despite the handicap of having 5 new players.be a handicap to somebody: · His lack of height has not been a handicap to him. He is as good an athlete as anyone else in the school.
to have a disadvantage compared to other people or things
· She has the same qualifications as the other candidates, but has one big disadvantage - lack of experience.· Their restaurant has the disadvantage of being located south of town, a little too far from the tourist routes.
to have a disadvantage, especially because you do not have the experience or qualities that make you more likely to succeed in doing something: · Women are still at a disadvantage when it comes to getting jobs in the military.· People with previous convictions are always at a disadvantage when on trial in a court of law.put/place somebody at a disadvantage: · The test put candidates whose first language was not English at a disadvantage.
if someone is disadvantaged , they are suffering social or economic disadvantages such as lack of money or bad education, so that they have less chance of being successful than other people: · The club runs programs for disadvantaged children in the inner city areas.the disadvantaged (=disadvantaged people): · Booth invented schemes to help the disadvantaged in the community.
to have a disadvantage that makes it very difficult for you to do something: be handicapped by something: · The Republican candidate was handicapped by his heavy schedule.· In all its ambitious plans the company has been handicapped by an outdated system of management.
use this to say that someone has a big disadvantage so that they are very unlikely to be successful: · With every big company in town trying to stop them, the odds are stacked against them.· Most people who go into casinos know the odds are stacked heavily against them, but it doesn't stop them from trying.
to give someone or something a disadvantage: · Her height could be to her disadvantage if she wants to be a dancer.· To its disadvantage, the book contains a lot of material that is difficult for the average person to understand.to the disadvantage of: · The government has reorganized the taxation system to the disadvantage of low-paid workers.
if particular conditions are against someone or something, they make it unlikely or impossible for them to succeed in doing something: · Time is against us. The longer we wait to find a solution to the crisis, the worse it will get.· He wanted to become a pilot but his bad eyesight was against him.
if something counts against you, it makes people have a worse opinion of you, and often makes people decide not to choose you, or makes them decide that you are guilty: · We believe Caroline Connely is innocent, but her silence could count against her in a court.· He was a child when he committed the crime. Should that count against him as an adult with a clean record?
the good and bad features of something
the good and bad features of something -- use this especially when you are comparing what is good and what is bad about something: · Being an only child has both advantages and disadvantages.the advantages and disadvantages of something: · the advantages and disadvantages of owning a car in the cityweigh the advantages and disadvantages of something (=to consider the advantages and disadvantages of something): · Politicians should carefully weigh the advantages and disadvantages of committing US troops to this conflict.
the advantages and disadvantages of something that you need to think about in order to make a decision: the pros and cons of: · There has been a lot of discussion about the pros and cons of making certain types of drugs legal.· Your doctor should explain the pros and cons of the different treatments available.weigh up the pros and cons (=think about the advantages and disadvantages): · Karen and David weighed up the pros and cons of having another child and decided against it.
the advantages and disadvantages of something such as a plan or method that you consider before you do something, or that you notice after it has been done: the pluses and minuses of: · She talked about some of the pluses and minuses of being self-employed.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYadjectives
· The main disadvantage of iron as a material is its weight.
· This method has one major disadvantage: its cost.
· Public transport is very bad here, which is a serious disadvantage.
· Children who are young in their school year sometimes have a slight disadvantage.
· It’s a very small garden and it has the further disadvantage of facing north.
· Unemployment often leads to social disadvantage.
verbs
· Cheap air travel has considerable environmental disadvantages.
formal· Working-class boys suffer disadvantages in the educational system.
(=succeed in spite of a disadvantage)· She was able to overcome the disadvantages of race and poverty.
phrases
(=someone has a disadvantage)· The company was at a disadvantage compared with its competitors.
(=make someone less likely to be successful than others)· Not speaking English might put you at a disadvantage.
(=make someone unlikely to be successful)· This system works to the disadvantage of women.
(=the good and bad features of something)· Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of working from home.
(=there are more advantages than disadvantages)· The advantages of building the new road would outweigh the disadvantages.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
· the advantages and disadvantages of living in a big city
(=the advantages are more valuable)· When it comes down to working from home, you have to decide if the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.
· The school has a high percentage of pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds.
(=poor)· Many of our students are from economically disadvantaged backgrounds.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· In reality, integration failed to deliver the promised advantages and had severe disadvantages.
· 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
· 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.
· 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.
· In this respect orthodox medicine may have placed itself at some disadvantage to its complementary counterparts.
· 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.
· 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.
Word family
WORD FAMILYnounadvantage ≠ disadvantagethe disadvantagedadjectiveadvantageous ≠ disadvantageousadvantaged ≠ disadvantagedverbdisadvantageadverbadvantageously ≠ disadvantageously
 something that causes problems, or that makes someone or something less likely to be successful or effective OPP  advantagedisadvantage of The disadvantage of the material is that it fades in strong sunlight.disadvantage to There are some big disadvantages to marriage – you do lose a lot of your freedom. Criminal behaviour can be linked to economic disadvantage.COLLOCATIONSadjectivesthe main disadvantage· The main disadvantage of iron as a material is its weight.a big/great/major disadvantage· This method has one major disadvantage: its cost.a serious/severe disadvantage· Public transport is very bad here, which is a serious disadvantage.a slight/minor disadvantage· Children who are young in their school year sometimes have a slight disadvantage.a further/additional/added disadvantage· It’s a very small garden and it has the further disadvantage of facing north.social/economic/educational disadvantage· Unemployment often leads to social disadvantage.verbshave a disadvantage· Cheap air travel has considerable environmental disadvantages.suffer (from) a disadvantage formal· Working-class boys suffer disadvantages in the educational system.overcome a disadvantage (=succeed in spite of a disadvantage)· She was able to overcome the disadvantages of race and poverty.phrasessomebody is at a disadvantage (=someone has a disadvantage)· The company was at a disadvantage compared with its competitors.put/place somebody at a disadvantage (=make someone less likely to be successful than others)· Not speaking English might put you at a disadvantage.be/work to the disadvantage of somebody (=make someone unlikely to be successful)· This system works to the disadvantage of women.advantages and disadvantages (=the good and bad features of something)· Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of working from home.the advantages outweigh the disadvantages (=there are more advantages than disadvantages)· The advantages of building the new road would outweigh the disadvantages.THESAURUSdisadvantage noun [countable] a bad feature that something has, which makes it less good or less useful than other things: · What do you think are the disadvantages of nuclear energy?· This car uses a lot of fuel, which is a major disadvantage.drawback noun [countable] a bad feature that something has, although it has advantages that are usually more important: · One of the main drawbacks is the price.bad point noun [countable] especially spoken a bad feature that something has: · All of these designs have both their good points and bad points.the downside noun [singular] the disadvantage of a situation that in most other ways seems good or enjoyable: · It’s a great job. The only downside is that I don’t get much free time.
disadvantage1 noundisadvantage2 verb
disadvantagedisadvantage2 verb [transitive] Verb Table
VERB TABLE
disadvantage
Simple Form
PresentI, you, we, theydisadvantage
he, she, itdisadvantages
PastI, you, he, she, it, we, theydisadvantaged
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave disadvantaged
he, she, ithas disadvantaged
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad disadvantaged
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill disadvantage
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have disadvantaged
Continuous Form
PresentIam disadvantaging
he, she, itis disadvantaging
you, we, theyare disadvantaging
PastI, he, she, itwas disadvantaging
you, we, theywere disadvantaging
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave been disadvantaging
he, she, ithas been disadvantaging
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad been disadvantaging
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill be disadvantaging
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have been disadvantaging
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE 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.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
· the advantages and disadvantages of living in a big city
(=the advantages are more valuable)· When it comes down to working from home, you have to decide if the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.
· The school has a high percentage of pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds.
(=poor)· Many of our students are from economically disadvantaged backgrounds.
Word family
WORD FAMILYnounadvantage ≠ disadvantagethe disadvantagedadjectiveadvantageous ≠ disadvantageousadvantaged ≠ disadvantagedverbdisadvantageadverbadvantageously ≠ disadvantageously
 to make someone less likely to be successful or to put them in a worse situation than others
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