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Definition of Disadvantaged
1. Adjective. Marked by deprivation especially of the necessities of life or healthful environmental influences. "Boys from a deprived environment, wherein the family life revealed a pattern of neglect, moral degradation, and disregard for law"
Definition of Disadvantaged
1. Verb. (past of disadvantage) ¹
2. Adjective. Lacking an advantage relative to another. ¹
3. Adjective. Poor; in financial difficulties. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Disadvantaged
1. disadvantage [v] - See also: disadvantage
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disadvantaged
Literary usage of Disadvantaged
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Opportunity 2000: Creative Affirmative Action Strategies for a Changing (1988)
"Retaining and Promoting Minorities and the Economically disadvantaged Companies
must take steps not only to recruit minorities and the economically ..."
2. Health Status of Minorities & Low Income Groups by DIANE Publishing Company, Dept. of Health and Human Services, United States (1991)
"Within HRSA, the Division of disadvantaged Assistance (DDA), of the Bureau of
Health Professions, has as its mission the initiation and development of ..."
3. Urban Schools: The Challenge of Location and Poverty by Laura Lippman, Shelley Burns, Edith K. McArthur (1996)
"The concentration of disadvantaged students in a high school was related to the
likelihood that students from that school would complete a post- secondary ..."
4. Small Business Innovation Research: Program Solicitation (1993)
"2.4 SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY disadvantaged SMALL BUSINESS CONCERN A socially
and economically disadvantaged small business concern is one: a. that is at ..."
5. Career Guidance: A Handbook For Policy Makers by European Commission (2004)
"Many of the marginalised and disadvantaged groups targeted by career ... What data
exist on the use of career guidance services by disadvantaged and at-risk ..."
6. ICT And Learning: Supporting Out-Of-School Youth And Adults (2006)
"Robert Kozma and Daniel A. Wagner Introduction This chapter is about the use of
information and communication technologies to reach the most disadvantaged ..."
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