What does DISADVANTAGED mean?

Definitions for DISADVANTAGED
ˌdɪs ədˈvæn tɪdʒd, -ˈvɑn-dis·ad·van·taged

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. deprived, disadvantagedadjective

    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"

Wiktionary

  1. disadvantagedadjective

    Lacking an advantage relative to another.

  2. disadvantagedadjective

    Poor; in financial difficulties.

Wikidata

  1. Disadvantaged

    The "disadvantaged" is a generic term for individuals or groups of people who: ⁕Face special problems such as physical or mental disability ⁕Lack money or economic support ⁕Are politically deemed to be without sufficient power or other means of influence

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of DISADVANTAGED in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of DISADVANTAGED in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of DISADVANTAGED in a Sentence

  1. Cheryl Greenberg:

    From the point of view of most White people, Jews were way more engaged and they made the choice to ally themselves with another disadvantaged community in order to protect equality for everyone, from the African American side, that was great, but Jews also had this economic power – because they were White – that they were not using necessarily to help the cause.

  2. Brett Horn:

    These players (who are limited to their niches) are fundamentally disadvantaged because they cannot run a lot of volume.

  3. Belinda Wilson:

    The union's position is that no teacher, and by extension no student, is going to enter any of those buildings until an engineer is able to say to that those schools are structurally sound, our role is to get kids in schools so that they're not further disadvantaged or further traumatized.

  4. Bobby Wilson:

    When small and disadvantaged farmers didn't have the avenue to get rid of that produce because people were not coming out to buy, we had an opportunity to help keep them alive, we were buying food from African American farmers who did not have outlets and giving it away.

  5. Tom Vilsack:

    I think you have to take you back 20, 30 years, when we know for a fact that socially disadvantaged producers were discriminated against by the United States Department of Agriculture. We know this. We have reimbursed people in the past for those acts of discrimination, but we've never absolutely dealt with the cumulative effect.

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