significant disadvantage
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsignificantanddisadvantage
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significant
adjective
uk/sɪɡˈnɪf.ɪ.kənt/us/sɪɡˈnɪf.ə.kənt/
important ...
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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 ofsignificantanddisadvantagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Thus, poor oral language skills place such students at asignificantdisadvantageas compared to their peers.
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Asignificantdisadvantageof the push/enter model is that it makes this attractive route much harder, or at least much less efficient.
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I express my solidarity with a fellow citizen on the one hand by assisting him if he suffers somesignificantdisadvantagethat is no fault of his own.
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As long as children receive adequate and consistent input in both languages they are perfectly capable of acquiring both without anysignificantdisadvantagecompared to monolingual children.
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He believes that that is asignificantdisadvantagein the context of disciplinary inquiries.
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Unless our exports were to be placed at asignificantdisadvantage, our rates have to be kept broadly in line with the rates of others.
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There is no question but that it puts individuals, particularly individuals without an organisation behind them, at asignificantdisadvantage.
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There is no evidence that the use of single vaccines benefits children and evidence that their use may put children atsignificantdisadvantage.
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Until we start to recognise that, we start from asignificantdisadvantage.
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We know that poor public transport and inadequate road and rail links are major problems and asignificantdisadvantage.
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She is at asignificantdisadvantage, especially as she has three small children.
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Unless our exporters were to be placed at asignificantdisadvantage, our rates had to be kept broadly in line with the rates of others.
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I simply could not agree to placing one party at asignificantdisadvantagefrom the outset of litigation by the operation of the costs rules.
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She drew attention to pockets ofsignificantdisadvantage, which must be tackled.
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That would put our companies at asignificantdisadvantage.
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We are talking not about marginal tonnages, but about the producers' core business, yet the auctions would place the small operators at asignificantdisadvantage.
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That would lend some protection against magistrates going outside the conventional brief and doing something which inadvertently was ofsignificantdisadvantageor unfair to the respondent.
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Her streamlined hull made loading the forward holds laborious, which became asignificantdisadvantageas ports became more and more automated.
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Asignificantdisadvantagefor air-cooled engines is that the rear cylinder runs hotter than the front cylinder.
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Onesignificantdisadvantageof flash memory is the finite amount of read/write cycles in a specific block.
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