Definition of Disadvantage

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Disadvantage

Deprivation of advantage; unfavorable or prejudicial quality, condition, circumstance, or the like; that which hinders success, or causes loss or injury.

Loss; detriment; hindrance; prejudice to interest, fame, credit, profit, or other good.

To injure the interest of; to be detrimental to.

Related Definitions:

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Disadvantage Quotations

To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.
W. Clement Stone

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
Albert Camus

Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.
Marilyn vos Savant

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Washington Irving

The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies without disadvantage solely upon the images which his inner eye presents to him; nature gives him his forms, study governs his combinations of them.
Hermann Ebbinghaus

Every disadvantage has its advantage.
Johan Cruijff

Mutual funds give people the sense that they're investing with the big boys and that they're really not at a disadvantage entering the stock market.
Ron Chernow

Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that everyone there seems to talk about the same subject matter.
Carter Burwell

This administration and the leadership in Congress appear to be intent on valuing wealth over work, thereby placing working families at a distinct disadvantage.
Tim Bishop

Out of labor's struggle in Arizona came better conditions for the workers, who must everywhere, at all times, under advantage and disadvantage work out their own salvation.
Mary Harris Jones

Disadvantage Translations

disadvantage in Dutch is nadeel, schaduwzijde, minpunt
disadvantage in German is Nachteil, Nachteil, Benachteiligung
disadvantage in Italian is pregiudizio
disadvantage in Norwegian is ulempe
disadvantage in Portuguese is desvantagem
disadvantage in Spanish is perjudicio
disadvantage in Swedish is nackdel

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