disbenefits

noun

plural of disbenefit
as in disadvantages
a feature of someone or something that creates difficulty for achieving success the question whether allowing the big-box stores in would be a disbenefit to the community

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  1. disadvantages
  2. liabilities
Noun
  • Compared with the cost of crime, interventions to offset the disadvantages of deprived environments would be cheap.
    — Ronald J. Allen, Chicago Tribune, 19 July 2026
  • What are the advantages and disadvantages of being seen that way?
    — Meghan O’Gieblyn, The New York Review of Books, 11 July 2026
Definition of disadvantages
Noun
  • The authors urge regulators to implement true consolidated supervision, account for implicit liabilities, and close asymmetric loopholes to curb this internal risk-shifting.
    — Mayra Rodriguez Valladares, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
  • The report then stripped out liabilities, which includes mortgage debt, of $5 trillion and subtracted the wealth of the top 1%, estimated at $28 trillion.
    — Robert Frank, CNBC, 17 July 2026
Definition of liabilities
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