main disadvantage
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmainanddisadvantage
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main
adjective[before noun]
uk/meɪn/us/meɪn/
larger, more important, or having more influence than others of the ...
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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 ofmainanddisadvantagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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She sees themaindisadvantageof secondary class teaching as 'the monotony of the same syllabus year after year'.
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But itsmaindisadvantagewas that it required a lot of labour to implement.
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Themaindisadvantageis that the hard issues involving recursive type components are not fully addressed.
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Themaindisadvantageis that the degradation is carried out on a polymeric membrane and the peptides have to be recovered from this.
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Themaindisadvantageof compliant mechanisms is the difficulty of analysis due to nonlinearities in the geometry of mechanisms during large deflections.
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Themaindisadvantageof informal semantics is that there is still much scope for ambiguity.
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Themaindisadvantageof generic quality of life instruments is their relative insensitivity to some specific health-related aspects of illness.
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Themaindisadvantagehere is the time factor.
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Themaindisadvantageof this solution is precisely that the numerals we define are too ad hoc.
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Themaindisadvantageis that the tests are nonstochastic.
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Themaindisadvantageof this method is its local nature.
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Themaindisadvantageis that, as undertaken, it does not include wider forms of natural capital.
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Perhaps itsmaindisadvantageis that the method no longer reflects the actual welfare loss people will face.
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Themaindisadvantageof using damper also comes from its energy dissipation property.
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Themaindisadvantageof the jump conditions for the two-layer flow derived from (2.5) is that they are inconsistent with the total momentum conservation.
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Themaindisadvantageis that it is not possible to obtain direct information of what happened or why it happened.
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Itsmaindisadvantageis its rather complex syntax and the lack of a semantic justification.
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Themaindisadvantageis that only one computer can use the network channel to communicate at any point in time.
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