competitive disadvantage
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcompetitiveanddisadvantage
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competitive
adjective
uk/kəmˈpet.ɪ.tɪv/us/kəmˈpet̬.ə.t̬ɪv/
involving ...
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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 ofcompetitiveanddisadvantagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Companies that do not address these elements will be at a severecompetitivedisadvantage.
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Increased environmental regulations of developing countries would induce these countries to be at acompetitivedisadvantage.
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While in the case of product standards the motive is the harmonization advantage, in the case of process standards the motive is avoidingcompetitivedisadvantage.
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In a market environment characterized by time and cost pressure, high response times for offer creation and order processing represent acompetitivedisadvantage.
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American manufacturers were relatively weak in relation to other social classes and at acompetitivedisadvantagein world markets.
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It can compensate the concerned industries for theircompetitivedisadvantageby subsidies.
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Higher costs, however, should not be seen as a 'competitivedisadvantage'; the higher costs are necessary to internalize the environmental externality.
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Next, regulatory competition becomes effective and drives the countries, which apply higher standards, towards the minimum standard, because they suffer from acompetitivedisadvantage.
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Producers on the periphery are at acompetitivedisadvantagecompared with their peers in the core in terms of access to multiple markets and numbers of consumers.
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People whose genes propel behaviours that enhance their own survival tend to propagate those genes into the future, to thecompetitivedisadvantageof other people not so fittingly endowed.
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Then the domestic steel industry, for example, suffers from acompetitivedisadvantageagainst the steel producers abroad, if these need not apply the same strict standards.
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After all, this is not a social issue, but it was included in the accession treaty in order to alleviate our existing majorcompetitivedisadvantage.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
The banks in the euro area will thus be placed at a majorcompetitivedisadvantagecompared with non-member countries.
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Vets will then have a monopoly on the sale of these commodities and it puts farmers again at acompetitivedisadvantage.
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If it does not, it will have a profoundcompetitivedisadvantage.
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If that disparity continues, it will create acompetitivedisadvantagefor our companies.
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It is no wonder that scores of companies have complained that they face a hugecompetitivedisadvantagecompared to their continental counterparts.
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It estimates that the fuel duty escalator will add £100,000 to its annual running costs, a severecompetitivedisadvantage.
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Other subsidiary information suggests that we have not put sterling at acompetitivedisadvantage.
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