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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.