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Definition: Disadvantaged |
DisadvantagedAdjective1. Marked by deprivation especially of the necessities of life or healthful environmental influences; "a childhood that was unhappy and deprived, the family living off charity"; "boys from a deprived environment, wherein the family life revealed a pattern of neglect, moral degradation, and disregard for law". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Diversity | 1. A historically oppressed group having less than sufficient resources to fund all of basic needs; without expendable income.2. A group characterized by disproportionate economic, social, and political disadvantages. (references) |
Social Sciences | Those categories known as "disadvantaged"-including not only migrant workers, but also the mentally and physically handicapped. [VE1]. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Although in some cultures there upward mobility gives people hope to change their futures, statistically a person born into poverty is likely to die there and have children who live powerless as well.
The current economy in the United States is one that has divided the rich and the poor, with the rich taking the bulk of the gains in productivity of the last several decades. According to Paul Krugman in a recent article titled For Richer in the New York Times about the distribution of wealth, there is even more of a divide between the classes today than in the 1920s, meaning that the disadvantaged are becoming more so (and the middle class may be headed their way as well).
Most of the most truly disadvantaged people live in the developing world with no running water, electricity or sanitation.
A current problem for the richest nations is the fact that many terrorists come from parts of the world where they have limited opportunities for advancement.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Disadvantaged."
Synonym: DisadvantagedSynonym: deprived (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Disadvantaged |
| English words defined with "disadvantaged": caseworker ♦ kind ♦ merciful ♦ political correctitude, political correctness, political incorrectness ♦ social service, social worker ♦ welfare work, welfare worker. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "disadvantaged": COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION WORKER, community service consultant, COMMUNITY WORKER ♦ information and referral director ♦ JOB DEVELOPMENT SPECIALIST ♦ poverty passport, program consultant ♦ transportation disadvantaged. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Christmas party for disadvantaged children, held on board the battleship by her crew, at San Pedro, California, December 1921. Credit: NAVY. |
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Health | Poor compliance with treatment regimens, especially among disadvantaged groups. (references) | |
In kidney transplantation, women, African-Americans, and children are among these disadvantaged groups. (references) | ||
For example, minority women, impoverished elders, and those without families are especially disadvantaged. (references) | ||
Business | Domestic software is further disadvantaged by its lack of international competitiveness. (references) | |
Healthcare professionals often hesitate to treat economically disadvantaged patients for similar reasons. (references) | ||
Emphasis is being given to training and skills development for members of disadvantaged groups, with a special focus on women. (references) | ||
Children | Nigeria | Rural girls are even more disadvantaged than their urban counterparts. (references) |
Israel and the occupied territories | Israeli Arab students also are not eligible to participate in a special education program to provide academic assistance to students from disadvantaged backgrounds. (references) | |
Hungary | The Government contests the claims of human rights organizations and states that the Romani schools are designed to provide intensive help for disadvantaged children. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Afghanistan | Shi'a, including the predominately Shi'a Hazara ethnic group, are among the most economically disadvantaged persons in the country. (references) |
Slovak Republic | Illegal high interest moneylending to economically disadvantaged Roma occurred frequently and occasionally resulted in Roma losing all possessions including housing. (references) | |
Czech Republic | Migrants from economically disadvantaged countries in Central and Eastern Europe often enter the country to take up illegal residency or in transit to other countries. (references) | |
Discrimination | Benin | Persons with disabilities are disadvantaged. (references) |
Fiji | It also provides for specific affirmative action provisions for those disadvantaged as a result of such discrimination. (references) | |
Maldives | Women traditionally have been disadvantaged, particularly in terms of the application of Shari'a, in matters such as divorce, education, inheritance, and testimony in legal proceedings. (references) | |
Economic History | Kenya | U.S.-based manufacturers are disadvantaged in terms of freight time as compared to European competitors. (references) |
Philippines | There will be an emphasis on meeting the basic needs of the severely disadvantaged and economically depressed areas. (references) | |
Austria | Screening is intended only to ensure compliance with EU regulations which limit such assistance to disadvantaged geographic areas. (references) | |
Human Rights | Qatar | Foreigners are disadvantaged, especially in cases involving the performance of contracts. (references) |
Turkey | In law and in practice, the legal system does not discriminate against minorities; however, while legal proceedings are conducted solely in Turkish with some interpreting available, some defendants whose native language is not Turkish may be disadvantaged seriously. (references) | |
Slovak Republic | Credible sources state that it is increasingly difficult for citizens who are disadvantaged economically to obtain noncriminal legal representation, and therefore it is becoming more difficult for some who may have had their rights infringed upon to take further legal action. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Jordan | Nevertheless, many Bedouin in rural areas are severely disadvantaged economically. (references) |
Indonesia | This includes, but is not limited to, groups such as the Dayak population in Kalimantan, some of whom live in remote forest areas, indigenous communities located throughout Papua, and economically disadvantaged families living as sea nomads on boats near Riau in eastern Sumatra and near Makassar (Ujung Pandang) in southern Sulawesi. (references) | |
Minorities | Kuwait | They have been disadvantaged in provision of mosques and in access to religious education. (references) |
Political Economy | REPUBLIC OF KOREA | Foreign banks are also disadvantaged in access to local-currency lending. (references) |
New Zealand | Government social programs offer substantial benefits to disadvantaged persons. (references) | |
Australia | A wide range of government programs offers assistance for disadvantaged citizens. (references) | |
Political Rights | Kyrgyz Republic | In the period prior to the parliamentary elections, the Government took numerous actions that disadvantaged opposition political parties. (references) |
Philippines | Election of senators by region would require a constitutional amendment; many Muslims and members of other disadvantaged groups who are underrepresented in the national legislature favor such an amendment. (references) | |
Suriname | While women have made limited gains in attaining political power in recent years, political circles remain under the influence of traditional male-dominated groups, and women are disadvantaged in seeking high public office. (references) | |
Trade | Philippines | In the application of any safeguard measure, the obligation of existing supply contracts shall not be impaired or disadvantaged. (references) |
Switzerland | U.S. exporters are disadvantaged by this system because the two food chain stores emphasize their own store brand products and favor products from their own processing plants. (references) | |
Germany | An array of specialist banks finance homeowner mortgages, provide guarantees to small and medium-sized businesses, finance projects in disadvantaged regions in Germany and guarantee exports to developing countries. (references) | |
Women | Zimbabwe | However, women remain disadvantaged in society. (references) |
Malaysia | In matters of income tax, government pension benefits, and transmission of citizenship, women are disadvantaged. (references) | |
Congo | Women in rural areas especially are disadvantaged in terms of education and wage employment and are confined largely to family farming, petty commerce, and childrearing responsibilities. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Namibia | The apartheid era disadvantaged non-white citizens in terms of wages and standards of living. (references) |
Korea | Finally, employers reported to abuse foreign workers would be subject to criminal charges and be disadvantaged in the Government's allocation of jobs for overseas workers. (references) | |
Namibia | After independence, many non-white citizens who were disadvantaged experienced a rapid increase in standard of living, particularly with respect to access to education, housing, water, power, and wages for those with at least a basic education. (references) | |
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Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | But additional jobs for the disadvantaged deserve special attention. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | I ask all of you to help me double our bipartisan Gear-Up program, which provides mentors for disadvantaged young people. |
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| "Disadvantaged" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 57.60% of the time. "Disadvantaged" is used about 408 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 57.6% | 235 | 19,568 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 36.03% | 147 | 25,998 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 5.88% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.49% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 408 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "disadvantaged": disadvantaged children ♦ transportation disadvantaged. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "disadvantaged": economically-disadvantaged, energy-disadvantaged. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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Arabic | منتقص (depreciating, derogatory), محروم (destitute), متدن (declining, dropped), بحاجة الى رعاية. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 贫困 (impoverish, impoverished, Impoverishing, indigent), 劣勢 (inferior). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | znevýhodnìný (inconvenienced), chudý (impecunious, lean, needy, poor, scanty, thin, underprivileged). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | dårligt stillede. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Werkgelegenheid-HORIZON(verbetering van het uitzicht op werk van gehandicapten en andere kansarme groepen) (Employment-HORIZON(improving the employment prospects of the disabled and other disadvantaged groups)), het toerisme voor gehandicapten bevorderen (to stimulate tourism for disadvantaged people), Communautair initiatief voor gehandicapten en bepaalde kansarme groepen (Community initiative concerning handicapped persons and certain other disadvantaged groups, HORIZON), alle kansarme groepen uitzicht op werk bieden (helping all disadvantaged groups to find employment), ...op een betrekking (helping all disadvantaged groups to find employment), ...op een baan (helping all disadvantaged groups to find employment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | défavorisé. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | benachteiligt (deprived, discriminates, handicapped, underprivileged, unprivileged). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | Κοινοτική πρωτοβουλία σχετικά με τα άτομα με ειδικές ανάγκες και ορισμένες μειονεκτούσες ομάδες (Community initiative concerning handicapped persons and certain other disadvantaged groups, HORIZON), προώθηση του τουρισμού για άτομα με ειδικές ανάγκες (to stimulate tourism for disadvantaged people), εξασφαλίζω απασχόληση σε όλες τις μειονεκτούσες ομάδες (helping all disadvantaged groups to find employment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | טעון טפוח (underprivileged), חות (coarse, degenerate, inferior, low, second rate, subordinate, tinpot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hátrányos (derogatory, detrimental, disadvantageous, hurtful, prejudicial). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | svantaggioso (detrimental, disadvantageous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | isadvantagedday menos favorecido. (various references) невыгодный (disadvantageous, disadventageous, thriftless, unbeneficed, unbeneficial, unprofitable, unremunerative). (various references) desventajoso (disadvantageous), desventajado (disadvantageous), perjudicado (injured), no privilegiado, marginado (dropout, outcast). (various references) socialt missgynnad. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "disadvantaged": disadvantagedness, disadvantagednesses. (additional references) | |
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"Disadvantaged" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: disadvan, disatvantage. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "disadvantaged" (pronounced di'sudva"ntijd or di'sudva"nijd) |
| 8 | -d v a" n t i j d | advantaged. |
| 3 | -i j d | acknowledged, averaged, bandaged, disparaged, encouraged, envisaged, hemorrhaged, leveraged, mismanaged, mortgaged, packaged, pillaged, presaged, ravaged, repackaged, salvaged, savaged, unmanaged. |
| 5 | -a" n i j d | mismanaged, unmanaged. |
| 3 | -i j d | acknowledged, advantaged, averaged, bandaged, disparaged, encouraged, envisaged, hemorrhaged, leveraged, mortgaged, packaged, pillaged, presaged, ravaged, repackaged, salvaged, savaged. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-d-d-d-e-g-i-n-s-t-v" | |
-1 letter: disadvantage. | |
-3 letters: advantaged, advantages. | |
-4 letters: advantage, divagated, divagates, indagated, indagates, navigated, navigates, vanadates. | |
-5 letters: dandiest, deviants, divagate, indagate, navigate, sanative, sedating, steading, vaginate, vanadate, vantages, vintages. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-a-d-d-d-e-g-i-n-s-t-v" | |
+4 letters: disadvantagedness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 69 73 61 64 76 61 6E 74 61 67 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .. ... .- -.. ...- .- -. - .- --. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101001 01110011 01100001 01100100 01110110 01100001 01101110 01110100 01100001 01100111 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D i s a d v a n t a g e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0069 0073 0061 0064 0076 0061 006E 0074 0061 0067 0065 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38758567708867808667737170 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Arabic | معجم, قاموس, الوضوحية في الشيء, حد, تحديد, تعريف, التحديد, الإيضاحية, ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ترجمة, إفتتان | العربية, عربي, اللغة العربية, 阿拉伯 , arabský, arabština, arabe, arabisch, αραβικόσ, ערבית, ערבי, arab, arabo, арабский, árabe, arabisk |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | الصينية, لغة الصين, صيني, الصيني أحد أبناء الصين, 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , èínský, èínština, èíòan, kineser, Chinois, Chinesisch, Κινέζος, κινέζικα, κινέζικοσ, κινέζοσ, σινικόσ, kínai, cinese, chinês, китайский, китаец, chino, kinesisk |
Czech | slovník, definice, překlad | تشيكي, اللغة التشيكوسلوفاكية, التشيكي أحد أبناء تشيكوسلوفاكيا, 捷克語 , 捷克语, 捷克 , èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, tjekker, tjekke, Tsjech, Tsjechisch, tchèque, Tscheche, tschechisch, Tschechin, Τσέχος, cseh, ceco, чешский, checo, tjeck |
Danish | ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelse | لغة الدانمركية, نوع كعك, دانماركي, 丹麦语, dánský, dánština, danois, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, עו'ת שמרים, " י, dán, danese, dinamarquês, датский, danés, dansk |
Dutch | woordenboek, definitie, translatie | هولندي, اللغة الهولندية, 菏蘭語 , 荷兰语, holandský, nizozemský, hollandsk, néerlandais, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, "ול "י, holland, olandese, holandês, голландский, holandés, holländsk |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | اللغة الفرنسية, فرنسي, الشعب الفرنسي, 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, francouzský, francouzština, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, צרפתית, צרפתי, francia, francese, francês, французский, francés, fransk, franska |
German | wörterbuch, Übersetzung | ضرب من الرقص, جرماني, الماني, اللغة الألمانية, المانية, 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , nìmec, nìmecký, tysker, Duitse, allemand, deutsch, Deutsche, "ερμανός, 'רמ ית, 'רמ י, német, tedesco, alemão, немецкий, alemán, tysk |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | يوناني, اللغة اليونانية, الإغريقي, 希腊语, 希臘語 , řek, řecký, řeètina, græker, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, יו ית, יו י, görög, greco, grego, греческий, грек, griego, grek |
Hebrew | אוצר מילים, "'"ר", "'בל", תור'מ ות, תר'ום, "עתק", "עתק | اليهودية, اللغة العبرية, يهودي, عبري, العبرية, 西伯来, 希伯來語 , hebrejský, hebrejec, hebrejka, hebrejština, joods, Hebreeuws, hébreu, hebräisch, Hebräer, εβραϊκόσ, εβραϊκά, εβραίοσ, עברי, עברית, zsidó, héber, izraelita, ebreo, ebraico, hebreu, hebraico, еврей, древнееврейский язык, древнееврейский, еврейский, hebreo, jude, hebreiska, hebreisk |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | مجري, المجري, الهنغاري, هنغاري, اللغة الهنغارية, 匈牙利语, 匈牙利語 , maïarský, maïarština, maïar, ungarer, Hongaarse, hongrois, Ungar, Ούγγρος, "ו 'רי, magyar, ungherese, венгр, венгерский, húngaro, ungrare |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | الإيطالي, اللغة الإيطالية, إيطالي, شخص إيطالي, 意大利 , 意大利語 , 意大利语, italský, italština, ital, italiener, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, איטלקית, איטלקי, olasz, italiano, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский, italiensk, italienska, italienare |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | اللغة البرتغالية, البرتغالية, البرتغالي, 葡萄牙語 , 葡萄牙人 , 葡萄牙语, portugalský, portugiser, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, portoghese, português, португальский, portugués, portugis |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | روسي, اللغة الروسية, الروسية, 俄語 , 俄文 , 俄语, ruština, ruský, russer, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, רוסי, orosz, russo, русский, ruso, ryss |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | اللغة الأسبانية, الأسبانية, أسباني, 西班牙語 , 西班牙文 , 西班牙语, španìlský, španìlština, Spaans, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, ספר"ית, ספר"י, spanyol, spagnolo, espanhol, испанский, español, spanska språk, spansk |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, definition, översättning | اللغة السويدية, 瑞典語 , 瑞典语, švédský, švédština, Zweeds, suédois, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svéd, svedese, шведский, sueco, svensk |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | الإنجليزية, الأنكليزي, إنكليزي, ترجمة إنكليزية, اللغة الإنكليزية, 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , anglicky, anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, א 'לית, angol, inglese, inglês, английский, inglés, engelsk |
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