Disadvantage means: A weakness or undesirable characteristic; con; drawback. Related words include advantage or liability. Below you'll find 20 example sentences showing how to use Disadvantage in practice.
Disadvantage in a sentence
Related words
Disadvantage meaning
- A weakness or undesirable characteristic; con; drawback.
- A setback or handicap.
- Loss; detriment; hindrance.
Example sentences (20)
In addition to finding a way to score and score often, you work to keep from putting the defense at a disadvantage.
At tribal council, Yam Yam says his tribe is at a disadvantage because they were only three coming into the merge.
Finally, as much as players want to avoid Disadvantage themselves, they'll also want to inflict it on their enemies.
Women in America still face various forms of disadvantage despite significant progress in advancing gender equality.
Neighborhood disadvantage encompasses factors like low income, education levels, overcrowding, and inadequate plumbing.
Their Resolute Stance feature also makes them impossible to grapple, and attacks against them are made at disadvantage.
Until dads are called to deal with child-related incidents as often as mums are, women will always be at a disadvantage.
Defence companies – or their developments – have been snapped up by foreign buyers, much to our disadvantage.
Cora is justified in his schedule grievances and the potential disadvantage at which it has placed his team.
Despite the man disadvantage, FC United dug in and made life difficult for the Colls following the red card.
Another smackdown for Racist Floridian Republicans in their attempt to redistrict to the disadvantage of the disadvantaged.
Really, any right tackle that Steelers’ outside linebacker T.J. Watt lines up against is at a disadvantage.
This is to ensure that no team is put at a disadvantage by playing before their direct rivals in the table.
Whilst this was a strong, positive trait to have, she felt at a disadvantage due to the nature of the game.
An emotional Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the body was needed to overcome Indigenous disadvantage.
A paid family and medical leave program would remove this competitive disadvantage as we vie with other states for employees.
It does not matter how The Voice is presented; it will never successfully tackle Aboriginal disadvantage.
AI: It's true that they are more used to it than us, but I don't think it's a big advantage/disadvantage.
Mr Ellery has identified the problem of widespread racism and extensive disadvantage in Indigenous communities in rural areas.
The other contestant said they had requested subtitles in advance so they wouldn’t be at a disadvantage.
Common combinations with disadvantage
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- at disadvantage 47×
- competitive disadvantage 16×
- disadvantage in 14×
- disadvantage to 11×
- the disadvantage 9×
- disadvantage and 9×
- disadvantage when 9×
- disadvantage of 8×
- and disadvantage 8×
- disadvantage as 7×
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About these examples
The 20 examples on this page contain the complete word disadvantage. Duplicate, incomplete, unusually short and technically noisy sentences are removed automatically. The definition is sourced from Wiktionary. Read more about our sources and checks on the About Voorbeeldzinnen.info page or see how to report a correction.