(n.) Deprivation of advantage; unfavorable or prejudicial quality, condition, circumstance, or the like; that which hinders success, or causes loss or injury.
(n.) Loss; detriment; hindrance; prejudice to interest, fame, credit, profit, or other good.
(v. t.) To injure the interest of; to be detrimental to.
Example Sentences:
(1) Their disadvantages - the expensive equipment and the time-consuming procedure respectively - limit their widespread use.
(2) One disadvantage of the EHL is that it lacks the fragment-collecting capability that the ultrasound lithotripter features.
(3) Each method has its own advantages and disadvantages.
(4) The diet dilution technique overcomes the major disadvantage of the graded supplementation method for determining the requirements of amino acids, namely that of the amino acid balance changing systematically in successive dietary treatments.
(5) This paper considers the advantages and disadvantages of the instrument together with indications for its use and reviews 118 patients who had 130 oral lesions removed with the CO2 laser.
(6) MCT TPN was found to have some disadvantages, especially with regard to nitrogen balance and plasma albumin levels.
(7) We conclude that acute ischemia induces a mechanical disadvantage which is greater than just the loss of contractile function by the ischemic segment.
(8) Paradigm relies heavily on social science research and analysis to help companies identify and address the specific barriers and unconscious biases that might be affecting their diversity efforts: things like anonymizing resumes so that employers can’t tell a candidate’s gender or ethnicity, or modifying a salary negotiation process that places women and minorities at a disadvantage.
(9) This suggests that there is little survival advantage or disadvantage in the combination of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency and sickle cell anaemia.
(10) In this paper, the main advantages and disadvantages of the following three techniques, i.e.
(11) We discuss advantages and disadvantages of total randomization, of Zelen-type randomization procedures, of Efron-type procedures vs more classical blocking procedures to control the balance between groups, and of Simon-Pocock-type procedures vs more classical stratification for controlling possible biases in prognostic factors.
(12) This article will review the orthopaedic conditions wherein ankle arthroscopy has utility, the advantages and disadvantages of arthroscopy, and nursing considerations for preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative patient care.
(13) Changes in the fitness of harmful mutations may therefore impose a greater long-term disadvantage on asexual populations than those which are sexual.
(14) After considering the advantages and disadvantages of preclinical laboratory exercises, they conclude that the former still outweigh the latter.
(15) The right atrial route is considered to be preferable as a primary approach and has no disadvantages.
(16) These were people who had neither disadvantage nor biological risk factors.
(17) Since they were established they have been credited with changing the face of children and family services, identifying disadvantaged children and families and providing targeted support.
(18) This article describes one way of circumventing these disadvantages.
(19) Each case must be assessed on its own premises: the substitution need, the availability of a transplant, the long-term prognosis, and the advantages and disadvantages of a solution with autotransplantation versus solutions without autotransplantation.
(20) Methods, advantages, and disadvantages of electrometry on wounds are reported.
Downside
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Today’s figures tell us little about the timing of the first increase in interest rates, which will depend on bigger picture news on domestic growth, pay trends and perceived downside risks in the global economy,” he said.
(2) 'This is the upside of the downside': Women's March finds hope in defiance Read more As thousands gathered for the afternoon rally and march, Trump tweeted his solidarity with their action.
(3) Uncertainty over ‘Brexit’, weak overseas growth and financial market volatility are all creating an unsettling business environment and point to downside risks to the economy in 2016.” The official figures follow mixed reports on the economy in recent weeks.
(4) The downside No quick fix: You need to be mentally and personally engaged in the class for a number of sessions before you begin to feel the benefits.
(5) That's just dandy when you're gazing at a lamb chop with mint sauce, but the downside to this technology is that each time you glance at the image of Jamie on the front cover you'll absorb some of him, too.
(6) And, of course, cities built on heavy industry had all the downsides of pollution, waste and filth.
(7) The crime problems were enormous, riots tore apart many American cities – and the downside of fiscal decentralisation was that, in the 70s, you had cities like New York on the edge of bankruptcy .
(8) The only downside was that his link-up play with Robin van Persie was noticeable for its absence.
(9) On the downside what they sell has the potential to seriously damage the children who are buying it.
(10) "We're expecting 0.4% growth, and our judgment is that there are downside risks to that," says Walker.
(11) But the official admitted there had been internal debate about how heavily that campaign would stress the downsides of independence, with some strategists disputing the need to change tactics.
(12) The downside was the online ‘dump’ of all recent published research on the department’s website on the last Thursday of every month to minimise negative media coverage.
(13) We can just about recognise that line of argument, though Thursday's Guardian coincidentally highlights the downside of the acquisitive urge too.
(14) An expensive city with relatively low unemployment The main downside to studying in Asia’s world city, however, is that it’s far from cheap.
(15) But the downside of urban living can be a lack of personal contact.
(16) State intervention was the right policy, but bankers and their shareholders should have been left to enjoy the downside of the free markets whose merits they had extolled for so long.
(17) Klopp’s men are now in a considerable position of strength before the second leg at Anfield on 26 January and the only downside is the sudden epidemic of hamstring injuries that has left them with a patched-up back four, Philippe Coutinho back on the treatment table and the makings of a defensive crisis.
(18) Furthermore, strains in global financial markets continue to pose significant downside risks to the economic outlook.
(19) Presenting the report , governor Mervyn King highlighted bigger downside risks to growth in the short run than the Bank had previously anticipated.
(20) The downside for City was that they, too, looked unusually susceptible at the back and Pellegrini was quite restrained when he said it “could easily have been 7-3”.