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disadvantage

noun as in hurt, loss

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Pachter said investors clearly think that the competing ad networks run by the likes of Snap and Twitter are going to be put at a disadvantage while titans like Google and Facebook charge ahead.

From Fortune

He’s unstoppable down there,1 after all, and Boston often appears to be at a significant size disadvantage.

Vince Tibone, retail sector head at Green Street, says there are questions about whether the unusual ownership structure put other landlords at a disadvantage.

From Ozy

However, vice presidents also face a number of disadvantages in the modern nomination system.

With extensive training and practice, athletes facing off against left-handers may be able to overcome this disadvantage in some sports.

Further, in the Super Tuesday states of Florida, Texas, and Virginia, Paul is operating at a decided disadvantage.

“The only disadvantage is contrary to President Obama, we definitely have ‘boots on the ground,’” the former Army officer said.

The only slight disadvantage to doing more and more things is you really have to be where the problems are.

So the disadvantage of having multiple things is on a day where everything is going badly on all things.

But Democrats are at a huge disadvantage in outside spending, the study found.

“I don't want any man taken by surprise or at disadvantage; I simply wish for truth,” said he.

Its disadvantage is that it introduces, with the bread, a variable amount of lactic acid and numerous yeast-cells.

It was certainly curious, this desire to screen his cousin, to prevent his appearing at a disadvantage.

(p. 340) In summer the roads are very dusty in California, and this dust is a disadvantage to the tobacco planter.

The English were at enormous disadvantage in being unable to bring into action their whole force together.

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On this page you'll find 43 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to disadvantage, such as: detriment, harm, prejudice, damage, deprivation, and disservice.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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