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disvantageous en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˌdɪsvɑːnˈteɪd͡ʒəs/
• /ˌdɪsvænˈteɪd͡ʒəs/
• /ˌdɪsvənˈteɪd͡ʒəs/

Etymology

From dis- + vantage + -ous.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) Disadvantageous.
   • […] That had not his light horse by disvantageous ground / Been hinder'd […] 1622, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 22 (1810 reprint)https://books.google.com/books?id=_hID3KBWGpYC&pg=PA346
   • […]but that arrangement being found disvantageous to the trustees, it was broken off[…] 1837, John Dunmore Lang, An Historical and Statistical Account of New South Wales, page 403:
   • A People may consume more of their own or Forreign Goods, than the Value of the Product, Manufacture, and Profits by Trade; But their Trade is not disvantageous, it is their too great consumption[…] 1705, John Law, Money and Trade Considered, published 1996:

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