possible disadvantage
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpossibleanddisadvantage
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possible
adjective
uk/ˈpɒs.ə.bəl/us/ˈpɑː.sə.bəl/
able to be done or achieved, or able ...
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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 ofpossibleanddisadvantagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This has thepossibledisadvantagethat the values depend on the levels of legitimate as well as illegitimate fertility.
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In order for reproduction by self-fertilization to evolve, the advantages must outweigh anypossibledisadvantageof inbreeding.
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Thepossibledisadvantageis that dichotomous outcomes are difficult to model using this method.
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Apossibledisadvantageof such a semantically enriched knowledge model is the large number of facets that need to be filled when building ontologies.
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But if this policy were adopted all over the country the greatestpossibledisadvantagewould follow at the present time to the public services.
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It seems to me that with that arrangement we should gain without anypossibledisadvantage.
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There is everypossibledisadvantage, and no conceivable advantage, in giving it.
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It is just away from the city centre, and therefore has the leastpossibledisadvantage.
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No one has produced evidence that there is apossibledisadvantageto the community.
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A national norm has everypossibledisadvantage, as we have seen.
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I can see only onepossibledisadvantagein that.
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There is everypossibledisadvantagein doing this as against a general rise of some sort.
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We were seeing how we could keep the general cost below that ceiling with the leastpossibledisadvantage.
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I see apossibledisadvantagein that course, in view of the time.
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They are labouring under the greatestpossibledisadvantagewith regard to the shortage of labour.
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There is anotherpossibledisadvantage.
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In fact, it has everypossibledisadvantage.
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I gather now that they have been put in because the matter is in the form which is commonly used but there is apossibledisadvantagein this arrangement.
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It is too much to expect an aeroplane to achieve any satisfactory results which has to start from a very rough field with tree stumps and under everypossibledisadvantage.
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Onepossibledisadvantageof the product, from a sustainability standpoint, is the inability to recycle it when it is slated for disposal.
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