obvious disadvantage

collocation in English

meaningsofobviousanddisadvantage

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obvious
adjective
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/ˈɒb.vi.əs/us
/ˈɑːb.vi.əs/
easy to see, recognize, ...
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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 ofobviousanddisadvantagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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One group atobviousdisadvantageare low income single elders, the focus of this paper.
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Anobviousdisadvantageof this setup is a variable number of observed emitters due to plasma expansion.
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Anobviousdisadvantageof the (completely) centralised approach is that it does not allow control data to be processed where and when it is appropriate to do so.
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Giraffe has anobviousdisadvantagecompared to smaller herbivores when grazing in grasslands, due to their specialized morphology.
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That has to be taken into account, and has to be set against theobviousdisadvantageof taking agricultural land at a time like this.
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Secondly, rate-capped authorities will be constrained by theobviousdisadvantageof rate capping.
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I do not think that that is anyobviousdisadvantagebecause we shall have the opportunity of looking at all the documents.
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Theobviousdisadvantageof this iniquitous cartel is that standards of performance get lower and lower as the decades go by.
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As we know, the distortion of competition is the mostobviousdisadvantageof state aid, but it is not the only one.
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There is theobviousdisadvantagethat smaller firms in particular which are in financial difficulty will not have the necessary money.
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There would be anobviousdisadvantagein creating so anomalous a position as that.
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Theobviousdisadvantageof that was that it would be costly.
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Theobviousdisadvantageof a monopoly is that it can fix prices against the consumer.
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There is anobviousdisadvantagefor the large one-shop business as against the large business which operates many small shops.
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The permit system has oneobviousdisadvantage; it freezes stocks in a trader's premises.
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In one respect local authority tenants are at anobviousdisadvantagecompared with private owners.
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It would not be anobviousdisadvantageor disaster to one party or the other for the representation to be changed.
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However, it has the veryobviousdisadvantagethat it does in many cases penalise extra effort not merely by executives but by wage earners.
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Itsobviousdisadvantageis that there could be gaps in the blockade.
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To produce one with a smaller cash value than that of their rival is the mostobviousdisadvantagethey will have to fight against.
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