inherent disadvantage

collocation in English

meaningsofinherentanddisadvantage

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inherent
adjective
uk
/ɪnˈher.ənt/us
/ɪnˈhɪr.ənt/
existing as a natural or basic part ...
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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 ofinherentanddisadvantagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Thus, their use of this venue is not clearly linked to aninherentdisadvantageand may result from a strategic choice.
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There is, however, theinherentdisadvantagethat the pattern of services would be decided by the county transport planners and not by the market.
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It is also good business sense for us to take away aninherentdisadvantagein economic terms.
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Theinherentdisadvantagein this system which is evolving is that the selection of students for the courses necessarily rests largely with the firms.
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The second is that there is a substantial minority of the population which is at aninherentdisadvantage.
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That would be some improvement on the present position, but it has theinherentdisadvantagethat the pattern of services is decided by county transport planners, not by the market.
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Reducing costs to our productive industries by tax mitigation would help counterbalance theinherentdisadvantageof attempting to invest and grow in a high capital cost economy.
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Theinherentdisadvantageof the radar beam riding system is that the beam spreads as it travels outward from the broadcaster.
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This means that scientists with a short career are at aninherentdisadvantage, regardless of the importance of their discoveries.
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This rule eliminated theinherentdisadvantageof pitting on the back stretch.
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Nevertheless, they exhibit some inherent disadvantages, such as limited and complex workspace.
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Yet advantages may have inherent disadvantages and danger which the physician is wise to recognize.
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However, in contrast with previous work, an experimental methodology is adopted in order to compensate to some extent the inherent disadvantages of naturalistic data.
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Decca also had theinherentdisadvantagethat the signal could only vary by as much as 360 degrees, and that patterned repeated in a circle around the stations.
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I am convinced that the way to overcome the inherent disadvantages of prison labour and conditions is by the intensive application of modern management techniques.
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As our social service policy has evolved, a great many inherent disadvantages have become increasingly apparent to all of us.
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There will be inherent disadvantages in terms of the fragmentation of the system across the network.
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There are apparently inherent disadvantages in being a human male.
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However, there are also inherent disadvantages in using adult stem cells, one being that they will age more rapidly and may replicate less predictably.
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That was one of the inherent disadvantages of the internal market system.
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