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disadvantage
English
Noun
(en noun )
A weakness or undesirable characteristic; a con.
- The disadvantage to owning a food processor is that you have to store it somewhere.
A setback or handicap.
- My height is a disadvantage for reaching high shelves.
* Burke
- I was brought here under the disadvantage of being unknown by sight to any of you.
* Palfrey
- Abandoned by their great patron, the faction henceforward acted at disadvantage .
Loss; detriment; hindrance.
* Bancroft
- They would throw a construction on his conduct, to his disadvantage before the public.
Synonyms
* (an undesirable characteristic) afterdeal, con, drawback, downside
* (a handicap) afterdeal, weakness
Verb
(disadvantag)
To place at a disadvantage.
- They fear it might disadvantage honest participants to allow automated entries.
* 2013 September 28, , ” London Is Special, but Not That Special ,” New York Times (retrieved 28 September 2013):
- For London to have its own exclusive immigration policy would exacerbate the sense that immigration benefits only certain groups and disadvantages the rest. It would entrench the gap between London and the rest of the nation. And it would widen the breach between the public and the elite that has helped fuel anti-immigrant hostility.
Derived terms
* disadvantageous
* disadvantageously
* disadvantageousness
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advantage
English
Noun
(en noun )
Any condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end.
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* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author= Ed Pilkington
, volume=188, issue=26, page=6, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= ‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told
, passage=In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.}}
* Shakespeare
- Give me advantage of some brief discourse.
* Macaulay
- the advantages of a close alliance
(obsolete) Superiority; mastery; — used with of to specify its nature or with over to specify the other party.
* Bible, 2 Corinthians ii. 11
- Lest Satan should get an advantage of us.
Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit; as, the advantage of a good constitution.
(tennis) The score where one player wins a point after deuce but needs the next too to carry the game.
(soccer) The continuation of the game after a foul against the attacking team, because the attacking team are in a advantageous position.
* November 17 2012 , BBC Sport: Arsenal 5-2 Tottenham
- Webb played an advantage that enabled Cazorla to supply a low cross from the left for Giroud to sweep home first time, despite Gallas and Vertonghen being in close attendance.
Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker’s dozen).
* Shakespeare
- And with advantage means to pay thy love.
Synonyms
* foredeal, benefit, value, edge
* vantage
Antonyms
* disadvantage, drawback
Derived terms
* advantage ground
* advantageous
* advantageously
* advantageousness
* have the advantage
* take advantage
Verb
(advantag)
To provide (someone) with an advantage, to give an edge to.
(reflexive) To do something for one’s own benefit; to take advantage of.
*, II.7:
- No man of courage vouchsafeth to advantage himselfe of that which is common unto many.
Usage notes
* Some authorities object to the use of advantage as a verb meaning “to provide with an advantage”.
Synonyms
* favor, favorise
* benefit
Derived terms
* advantageable
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