disadvantage

Example Sentences

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The baby bundles will be available to those in Flying Start catchment areas - a Welsh government programme which targets disadvantaged communities - and contains essential items to support new parents and their babies.

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"Nursing students are heavily disadvantaged by high laundry costs," she said, adding that extra washing was "essential for our degree".

From BBC

The prominent use of samples and interpolations in Luther and APT could put them at a disadvantage here; which is good news for Carpenter's Manchild - whose country-pop hybrid appeals to a broad cross-section of voters.

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After it closed in 1968, the Lions Club acquired the whole site and turned it into a camp where disadvantaged young people and children, and groups with special needs, could stay during school holidays.

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While the European Union also wants stronger ties with China, it is alarmed by the current trade imbalance, with a gaping deficit of more than $350 billion to Brussels's disadvantage.

From Barron's