inferior position

collocation in English

meaningsofinferiorandposition

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inferior
adjective
uk
/ɪnˈfɪə.ri.ər/us
/ɪnˈfɪr.i.ɚ/
not good, or not as good as someone or ...
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position
noun
uk
/pəˈzɪʃ.ən/us
/pəˈzɪʃ.ən/
the place where something or someone is, often in relation to ...
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(Definition ofinferiorandpositionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofinferior position

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She acknowledges herinferiorpositionby gesture, movement and posture, knowing that her deference and submissiveness are her best defences at the early stages.
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How do rural children negotiate this cultural dichotomy that places their musical self in aninferiorposition?
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Episcopalian clergy were expelled from their parishes, and generally relegated to aninferiorposition.
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The oligarchies were intermediate groups, but were clearly integrated, albeit in aninferiorposition, into the privileged classes of feudal society.
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They were always in aninferiorpositionand should be protected as victims of male violence.
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Or must we perpetually have aninferiorpositionin what is a very important industry?
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The watch committees have this power, but apparently a standing joint committee is put into aninferiorpositionin that matter.
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All that would happen is that we would be placed in aninferiorposition.
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That means that performers will be placed in aninferiorpositioncompared with their continental counterparts.
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He can be given no reason why he is maintained in thisinferiorposition.
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They believe that means-tested benefits put them in aninferiorposition.
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For centuries women in this country have been in aninferiorposition.
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A woman who is rendered a widow by an industrial accident, for example, should not be placed in aninferiorpositionto a war widow.
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We are placing the workers of that great primary industry in aninferiorposition.
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Whatever the choice, it is a choice of punishment that puts them in aninferiorposition.
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At the moment they are in aninferiorpositionto their male counterparts in society and pension funds.
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It has put its full exertions into the home market, and relegated to aninferiorpositionthe export department and the export effort.
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They believed, rightly or wrongly, that the rule of law meant the final establishment of theirinferiorpositionin the world.
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