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the disadvantageous
adjective
Not advantageous.
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Historically, deception, kidnapping, and coercion have been used to obtain contract labourers, with contractual terms often reflecting the disadvantageous position of the labourer.
Children's laureate Chris Riddell, backed by all eight former children's laureates including Quentin Blake and Julia Donaldson, has made a powerful and passionate call for the Department of Education to end the "disadvantageous school library lottery" that has seen hundreds of school libraries lose a dedicated librarian over the last decade.
This is not a philosophy that Republicans can speak plainly, so they find themselves in the disadvantageous position that Democrats held for so long: they have to blur and disguise, to manipulate language into sequences of poll-tested catchwords like "civility" and "bipartisan".
As Mayfield says, one of the great ironies of our time is that it's more difficult for great philanthropists to give away their businesses today than it was for John Spedan Lewis, who gave his company to staff in 1929, as they are penalised because of the disadvantageous and complex tax regime.
By the end of 1800, he had maneuvered Russia into the disadvantageous position of being officially at war with France, unofficially at war with Great Britain, without diplomatic relations with Austria, and on the verge of sending an army through the unmapped khanates in Central Asia to invade British-controlled India.
The sandwich-design alone reduced the disadvantageous thermal gradient over individual sample wells by 56%.
But the sense is descriptive insofar as no evaluative judgment is made regarding the justifiability of the disadvantageous treatment.
This is due to the disadvantageous relationship between the potential revenues for the operators and the cost of required infrastructures.
The disadvantageous effect of concentration polarization on the transportation of salt ions in interstitial solution is thus lessened.
The disadvantageous changes are the result of national or local governments spatial policy and they are an inhabitants' response to it.
The disadvantageous effect of this load position is not so severe when the load is taken by two parallel beams that are connected by an element.
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