nonadvantaged

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adjective

Not advantaged; lacking advantages; unadvantaged.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

adjectivenonadvantaged (comparative more nonadvantaged, superlative most nonadvantaged)

comparative more nonadvantaged · superlative most nonadvantaged

  1. Not advantaged; lacking advantages; unadvantaged.

    Therefore, 86% of the nonadvantaged offenders have had previous and often lengthy prior involvement in the criminal justice system.

    1998, Victoria R. DeRosia, Living Inside Prison Walls: Adjustment Behavior, page 135
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    Except in the case of a nonadvantaged student, a student shall be declared eligible to receive special services under the auspices of gifted education if either of the following conditions obtains:

    1990, Edwina D. Pendarvis, Aimee Howley, Craig B. Howley, The Abilities of Gifted Children, page 75

    The ABs (positive/nonadvantaged) were potential geniuses whose parents weren't told of their children's potential: controls, in other words.

    2023, David R. Palmer, Tracking

Origin

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APA

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Chicago

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