See disadvantage in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"sense": "loss; detriment; hindrance",
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"word": "препя́тствие"
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"word": "sự thiệt hại"
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"word": "disadvantage"
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"word": "disadvantageous"
},
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"word": "disadvantageously"
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"word": "disadvantageousness"
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"text": "They fear it might disadvantage honest participants to allow automated entries.",
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"ref": "2013 September 28, Kenan Malik, “London Is Special, but Not That Special”, in New York Times, retrieved 2013-09-28:",
"text": "For London to have its own exclusive immigration policy would exacerbate the sense that immigration benefits only certain groups and disadvantages the rest. It would entrench the gap between London and the rest of the nation. And it would widen the breach between the public and the elite that has helped fuel anti-immigrant hostility.",
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"To place at a disadvantage."
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"word": "tell against"
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