2. Verb. (third-person singular of disadvantage) ¹
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Definition of Disadvantages
1. disadvantage [v] - See also: disadvantage
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disadvantages
Literary usage of Disadvantages
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1850)
"Art. V.—ADVANTAGES AND Disadvantages OF PRIVATE CORPORATIONS. THEIR ADVANTAGES.
AN absence of great -wealth was common to the inhabitants of the United ..."
2. The Contemporary Review (1870)
"DAY-SCHOOLS : THEIE ADVANTAGES AND Disadvantages. T DO not wish to write as a
partisan either of day-schools or of -*• the boarding-house, or of what, ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"But the institution itself and its students laboured under the greatest disadvantages.
The university had no charter from the State to confer ..."
4. Principles of Political Economy by Charles Gide (1902)
"... hallowed by a practice of several centuries : we refer to the laying of import
duties. Numerous disadvantages are presented by this mode of procedure. ..."
5. Scotland by Walter Scott, Mayo Williamson Hazeltine (1899)
"HISTORY OF SCOTLAND CHAPTER XXV Disadvantages of the Protestants—They receive
Supplies ... But the Scottish nobles labored under other disadvantages besides ..."
6. Elements of Political Economy by Joseph Shield Nicholson (1903)
"It may be useful to notice some of the possible disadvantages, from the national
... Possible Disadvantages of Foreign Trade to a Particular Country. ..."
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