Disadvantaged

Word DISADVANTAGED
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Definitions and meanings of "Disadvantaged"

What do we mean by disadvantaged?

Deprived of some of the basic necessities or advantages of life, such as adequate housing, medical care, or educational facilities. adjective

Being at a disadvantage, especially with respect to competitive or opposing elements or forces. adjective

Deprived people considered as a group. Often used with the. noun

Simple past tense and past participle of disadvantage. verb

Lacking an advantage relative to another. adjective

Poor; in financial difficulties. adjective

Marked by deprivation especially of the necessities of life or healthful environmental influences adjective

To place at a disadvantage.

A big word to put inplace of something much more simple. Like disadvantage...someone decided to add three letters just so they would seem more intelligent on there paper or homework assignment, and now it's a word Urban Dictionary

1. Getting robbed by Microsoft. Paying 599 EUR for the retail version of Windows Vista Ultimate, 460 EUR for the hardware upgrades needed to use it and getting that lovely "This copy of Microsoft Windows(R) is not genuine." box after two weeks' use. How come the users who actually pay for their software suffer from the antipiracy campaign while the users with warez versions have no problems at all? 2. Having to waste lots of time to view the FBI warnings every time one starts to play a genuine DVD while the pirated versions usually omit these warnings or at least have no limits on using fast forward to skip them. 3. The compatibility problems associated with protected audio CD's. While the consumers buying genuine versions have to cope with these problems, the others using pirated versions with no copy protection or downloading MP3's and burning CD's themselves are not affected. An extreme example was the Sony rootkit scam. 4. The annoying tendency of some games to require that the game CD-ROM is present every time the game is started/played even if the game is fully installed on the hard drive. Again, the pirated versions often come with a patch which disables the CD check, thus creating a more pleasant gaming experience. Urban Dictionary

When your friend tells you he's going to a sporting event but refers to it by the visiting team. One who has homefield disadvantage does this because he/she has to be cocky in making it clear that he/she is a fan of the visitors. Urban Dictionary

Getting fucked by Microsoft. Paying 599 EUR for the retail version of Windows Vista Ultimate, 460 EUR for the hardware upgrades needed to use it and getting that lovely "This copy of Microsoft Windows(R) is not genuine." box after two weeks' use. Urban Dictionary

When someone’s ugliness effects their life dramatically, Opposite to pretty privilege Urban Dictionary

Aka. D.F.R.D.E. A major social problem where people with disabilities often have a harder time getting into and maintaining romantic relationships compared to the average person. This happens for various reasons including that people with disabilities often have a harder time recognizing social cues that indicate someone likes them romantically due to lack of experience and the fact they are not taught about how recognize romantic cues from their parents, teachers, and friends, people assume that people with disabilities are not able to fulfill their expectations for romantic partners, and in school settings, they are often taught separately from kids who don't have disabilities, which prevents them from making friends who don't have disabilities who could teach them more about how to get into and maintain romantic relationships. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Disadvantaged

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The word "disadvantaged" in example sentences

The public pension funds once touted these programs as a way to give what they called "disadvantaged groups" access and opportunity. ❋ Carmen Ortiz-McGhee (2011)

I notice that there's … you've earmarked half a million dollars for under … what they call disadvantaged schools. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Life - even for those of us who grew up "disadvantaged" is not a universal constant. ❋ Roger Sutton (2009)

"A major piece of research, commissioned by Media Trust, reveals there is an opportunity for Community Voices to add real value to current media activities within disadvantaged and isolated communities." ❋ Unknown (2009)

The idea that one owes special help to those most unfairly disadvantaged is not in way like the idea that one may go out of one's way to help those like oneself (in my case, white and male) however great their advantages, and however unfairly those advantages may have been achieved and sustained. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The high price paid by those children who are most disadvantaged is brought home powerfully. ❋ Valerie Strauss (2010)

The small type adds: For decades, oil companies like ours have worked in disadvantaged areas, influencing policy in order to do there what we can't do at home. ❋ Steven Mufson (2010)

Families in disadvantaged neighborhoods aren't the only victims of the lottery nightmare depicted in Waiting for 'Superman.' ❋ Jacqueline Edelberg (2010)

The one-off bonus taxation will raise a substantial amount of money, banging on about the deficit all the time forgets the fact that we are still in a recession and that growth has not yet really returned – so, for now, raising money to protect front line services and helping those that are disadvantaged is to me something we should be encouraging. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I get that there are other people who are disadvantaged from the start, but really, honestly, I came from that same kind of background (single parent, multiple divorces, abuse, etc) and I'll be graduating this spring with a job in art. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Each summer, we hold several free camps for girls in disadvantaged areas of Dallas to teach them about careers, especially opportunities in the fields of math and science. ❋ The Women's Museum (2008)

Now if yuou live a life of luxary and the only contact you have with the disadvantaged is for some photo-op or you support them by having $1000 a plate dinners for charity you WILL NOT become friends with them, you WILL NOT EVER understand them. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Experimental evidence on the positive effects of early interventions on children in disadvantaged families is consistent with a large body of non-experimental evidence showing that the absence of supportive family environments harms child outcomes. ❋ Unknown (2008)

What he has done in combating poverty on behalf of the poor and disadvantaged is admirable. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Catholic and Lutheran schools as well as some Jewish schools have a history of taking in disadvantaged kids and educating them. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I don't think that he will be disadvantaged from a marketing perspective because the fish out of water narrative will be so compelling that he will reach a broader audience. ❋ Xtra (2007)

However [persistent] [snow] [cover] might be disadvantageous. ❋ Allez Notaehw (2010)

Person 1: 'I actually paid Microsoft [599] [euros] for this piece of crap and now it says it's not genuine' Person 2: 'That's just unfair' Person 3: 'But that's just [Microsoft's] Genuine Disadvantage' ❋ An4ljuggernaut (2007)

"What are you doing tonight?" "Going to the [Celtics] game" "Are you flying to [Boston]? The [Nuggets] play here, tool. You clearly have homefield disadvantage" ❋ Zerosignal28 (2010)

Person 1: 'I paid [599] [euros] for this sh!t and got to use it just two weeks' Person 2: 'That's just unfair' Person 3: 'But that's Microsoft's [Ingenuine] Disadvantage' ❋ An4ljuggernaut (2007)

“[My friend] has a bad [case] of [disheveled disadvantage]” ❋ S/a/M (2023)

The disability facilitated romantic disadvantage effect is an issue where people with disabilities have a harder time [getting into] and [maintaining] romantic relationships compared to the average person. The best way to correct this problem is to remind people of [all the things] these people are capable of doing just as well as the average person. It is very unfortunate this issue is still very prevalent. ❋ Vanguard 1998 (2021)

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