disadvantage_2 noun – Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes | Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary at OxfordLearnersDictionaries.com

Competition has its disadvantages.

Despite these disadvantages, many older people maintain an active social life.

Lack of qualifications is an obvious disadvantage.

Some students were at an unfair disadvantage.

The fog was giving them a tactical disadvantage.

The plan’s advantages outweigh the disadvantages.

The present system has the disadvantage that nobody really understands how it works.

There are disadvantages in using this treatment.

There are disadvantages to all those approaches.

There was no reason for her to feel at a disadvantage.

These requirements will have to be standardized if some banks are not to suffer a competitive disadvantage.

This change in the law will be to the disadvantage of small companies.

This put them at a crippling cost disadvantage.

We were at a distinct disadvantage compared with children from richer families.

another disadvantage for the night-worker

the disadvantage experienced by older people in the workplace

the inherent disadvantage that low-income communities face

the problems of racial disadvantage and poverty