disadvantaged

English

Verb

disadvantaged

1. simple past tense and past participle of disadvantage

Adjective

disadvantaged (comparative more disadvantaged, superlative most disadvantaged)

1. Lacking an advantage relative to another.
2. (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

lacking an advantage relative to another

• Dutch: kansarm (nl)
• Finnish: alakynnessä

• German: benachteiligt (de)
• Swedish: missgynnad, eftersatt (sv)

euphemistic: poor

• Finnish: vähävarainen, huono-osainen (fi)

• German: benachteiligt (de)