severe disadvantage

collocation in English

meaningsofsevereanddisadvantage

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severe
adjective
uk
/sɪˈvɪər/us
/səˈvɪr/
causing very great pain, difficulty, worry, damage, etc.; ...
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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 ofsevereanddisadvantagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The point is that the undernourished are at aseveredisadvantagein their ability to obtain food.
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Although quite common, illegitimacy placed the child at aseveredisadvantageunder both custom and law.
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This firm wrote to me pointing out theseveredisadvantageit is suffering.
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As a result, we shall be at aseveredisadvantage—indeed, we shall be unable to take part even if the exemption is given.
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It has been discovered that this puts the carpet industry at aseveredisadvantage.
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Moreover, are we not now in danger of placing our operators under aseveredisadvantageas against foreign competitors?
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If they ceased to exist, home students as well as overseas students would suffer aseveredisadvantage.
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This authority suffers aseveredisadvantagein terms of the anomalies that can occur in industrial derating.
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Those people have been put at aseveredisadvantage.
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Those who fall just outside the upper limit are put at aseveredisadvantagecompared with those who receive legal aid.
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It seems to me that in many respects they are put at a veryseveredisadvantage.
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Secondly, we are routinely blighted by poverty of opportunity caused by declining local infrastructure, which places rural communities at aseveredisadvantage.
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That might be aseveredisadvantagein ordinary telephone communications for civilian purposes, but not an absolute hindrance for military communications.
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Our security forces operate under aseveredisadvantageevery time they go out.
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Were we not to proceed in this way, our pilots could be at aseveredisadvantage.
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Our fishing fleet has been at aseveredisadvantageas a result of the delay.
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There is aseveredisadvantagefor anyone who wishes to recover through a sheriff's court that to which he is entitled in law.
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To forbid their use unilaterally will place our producers at a veryseveredisadvantage.
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British pharmaceutical companies could be at aseveredisadvantagebecause of restrictions on research.
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