huge disadvantage

collocation in English

meaningsofhugeanddisadvantage

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huge
adjective
uk
/hjuːdʒ/us
/hjuːdʒ/
extremely large in size ...
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disadvantage
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˌdɪs.ədˈvɑːn.tɪdʒ/us
/ˌdɪs.ədˈvæn.t̬ɪdʒ/
a condition or situation that causes problems, especially one that causes something or someone to be less successful than other things ...
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(Definition ofhugeanddisadvantagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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That is not the way to run a distribution formula, and it puts rural forces at ahugedisadvantage.
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However, ahugedisadvantageis that it is not a sustainable policy as landfill sites are used up.
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Therefore, it would tend to go for a unitary county, but there is ahugedisadvantagewith that.
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The danger is that this system of funding will turn into ahugedisadvantageif money is allowed to drift towards demand rather than need.
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Does he agree that such differential pricing would be ahugedisadvantageto people, particularly those in rural communities?
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As both previous speakers mentioned, that would place successor bodies at ahugedisadvantagein respect of their competitors.
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The unrepresented applicant is at ahugedisadvantageagainst the legally represented employer.
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It puts them at ahugedisadvantagein the face of what may often be well-to-do charlatans.
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They find themselves at ahugedisadvantagerelative to the person next door, the person across the road or the person above or below.
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The second point on which a person can be at ahugedisadvantageis not having legal aid.
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For some it means ahugedisadvantage, especially when it is used to claim in-work benefit.
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They are therefore at ahugedisadvantage.
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One might at least understand, if not forgive, bullying of the normal kind, but this is bullying of people who clearly are at ahugedisadvantagein their schools.
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It stems partly from the broken working periods that make up most women's working lives, meaning that they enter the pensioner stage at ahugedisadvantageto men.
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The problem with that is that, notwithstanding thehugedisadvantageto the immediate residents of the area, it would be massively disruptive during the construction period.
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Allopaternal care seems to be ahugedisadvantagefrom an evolutionary perspective, since the male expends its resources to benefit genetically unrelated offspring.
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Z refers to the album as being masculist in that it calls man's attention to thehugedisadvantagehe has created in his present relationship with women.
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The problem will be to come up with a system that is fair to the members of the various schemes and which will not cause huge disadvantages.
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In these old forests there weren't many open places where insects with huge structures on their back could have lived without experiencing huge disadvantages.
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