disadvantaged
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English[edit]
Verb[edit]
disadvantaged
- simple past tense and past participle of disadvantage
Adjective[edit]
disadvantaged (comparative more disadvantaged, superlative most disadvantaged)
- Lacking an advantage relative to another.
- (euphemistic) Poor; in financial difficulties.
- 2020 December 2, Nigel Harris, “Comment: The UK's worst crisis since 1709”, in Rail, page 3:
- And it gets better. If 10% of those 17,000 new jobs employ people from a disadvantaged background, the value rises to £8.3bn.
Translations[edit]
lacking an advantage relative to another
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euphemistic: poor
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