disadvantaged Definition
dis·ad·van·taged (-ijd)
adjective
deprived of a decent standard of living, education, etc. by poverty and a lack of opportunity; underprivileged
disadvantaged Usage Examples
Preposition: by
- lack: It shares ideas to address the needs of people severely disadvantaged by lack of information.
- poverty: Our challenge is to make the program available to many more young people, particularly those disadvantaged by poverty or disability.
Used with adjective complement
- feel: Amal is happy for her literacy support to carry on but would not feel disadvantaged if it was discontinued.
- remain: The incomes of ethnic minorities Some minority groups have prospered in Britain, but others remain severely disadvantaged.
Modifies a noun
- neighborhood: All the food projects included in the study worked with people on low incomes, mostly living in disadvantaged neighborhoods.
- background: They had both had disadvantaged backgrounds, growing up without a father present most of the time.
- youngster: The new restaurant called Fifteen in Westland Place, near Old Street, was set up to train disadvantaged youngsters from Hackney.
- community: My previous work in Leeds Met involved working in disadvantaged communities removing barriers to HE.
- ward: Soon other schools were popping up in disadvantaged wards of the city.
- group: Now we wonder why these disadvantaged groups are not found on the web.
Modifying Another Word
- socially: The main target group for the scheme is people within socially disadvantaged communities.
- economically: Quot in we more economically disadvantaged how claims diverge.
- educationally: However, they are among the most educationally disadvantaged groups in Ireland.
- unfairly: Ensure that the disabled student is not being unfairly disadvantaged by selection procedures.
- socio-economically: Access to Third Level Education for students from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds.
- financially: This means that Cambridge is today the cheapest university in England for someone from a financially disadvantaged background.
Preposition: in
- society: The fate of those who are disadvantaged in society depends crucially on their access to goods through the world of work.
- workplace: At Shaw Trust, we work with over 50,000 people a year who are disabled or disadvantaged in the workplace.
- comparison: This would perhaps ensure that UK collective investment schemes were not disadvantaged in comparison to such offshore fund vehicles aimed at the UK market.
- market: Help for unemployed people disadvantaged in the labor market ( around £ 500,000 available ) 3.2.
Browse dictionary entries near disadvantaged
- ‹ disadvantage
- ‹ disaccustom
- ‹ disaccredit
- ‹ disaccord
- ‹ disaccharide
- ‹ disabuse
- ‹ disabled
- ‹ disable
- ‹ disability insurance
- ‹ disability income insurance
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