- past participle of disadvantage.
- past tense form of disadvantage.
disadvantaged
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About half of the student body at Da Vinci Communications, the public charter school where Jackson still teaches, is economically disadvantaged, according to U.S.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026
"Disadvantaged children attend disadvantaged schools, located in disadvantaged areas," he said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
Lyne, who went on to co-found venture-capital firm BBG, said there is still a sense that women building companies on their own are disadvantaged.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
In a statement, he added that the name of the unit posed "obvious problems of definition" and "risks being deeply patronising, to equate being working class with being disadvantaged".
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
To improve the education of disadvantaged students requires social changes which educational institutions alone cannot make, of course.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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