Collocations withdisadvantage

These are words often used in combination withdisadvantage.

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competitive disadvantage
Companies that do not address these elements will be at a severe competitive disadvantage.
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considerable disadvantage
The latter has the considerable disadvantage that the reader does not find the information on one and the same affix in one place.
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distinct disadvantage
There is a distinct disadvantage if attached to the venous line in that bubbles frequently enter and can block some of the hollow fibers.
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economic disadvantage
At the rural site, the three participating school districts served regions with elevated levels of economic disadvantage and townships with populations under 10,000.
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educational disadvantage
We could alleviate the housing problems fairly quickly, but educational disadvantage causes a much longer-term problem.
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enormous disadvantage
This is an enormous disadvantage to anyone who wants to read any displayed information that extends to a fairly large number of frames.
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huge disadvantage
That is not the way to run a distribution formula, and it puts rural forces at a huge disadvantage.
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inherent disadvantage
Thus, their use of this venue is not clearly linked to an inherent disadvantage and may result from a strategic choice.
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main disadvantage
She sees the main disadvantage of secondary class teaching as 'the monotony of the same syllabus year after year'.
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major disadvantage
The major disadvantage is complexity; an inference algorithm is necessarily less abstract than a set of inference rules.
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obvious disadvantage
One group at obvious disadvantage are low income single elders, the focus of this paper.
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possible disadvantage
This has the possible disadvantage that the values depend on the levels of legitimate as well as illegitimate fertility.
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potential disadvantage
A potential disadvantage of the study was the use of different case finding instruments at the two ages.
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primary disadvantage
In addition, it avoids the primary disadvantage of the old method, that is the bias against deep probes in the tree.
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relative disadvantage
But forest land is preserved even during this crisis due to the increasing relative disadvantage of generating income through basic grain production for subsistence.
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serious disadvantage
The inequity this generates, however, is a serious disadvantage.
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severe disadvantage
The point is that the undernourished are at a severe disadvantage in their ability to obtain food.
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significant disadvantage
Thus, poor oral language skills place such students at a significant disadvantage as compared to their peers.
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slight disadvantage
This is a slight disadvantage to the tenant, who would have to pay two and a half instead of two valuations.
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social disadvantage
With one exception, boys from families characterized by social disadvantage and frequent transition were also at significant risk for each event in the trajectory.
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structural disadvantage
Class, paid employment and family roles : making sense of structural disadvantage, gender and health status.
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tremendous disadvantage
This is what happens, and the small trader finds himself at a tremendous disadvantage.
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unfair disadvantage
At least on this occasion, opportunity concerns are sufficient to reconcile profound divergences through a more nuanced view of moral relevance and unfair disadvantage.
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