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disbenefit (stress variable).
[dis- 9.]
Loss or absence of benefit; a disadvantage or drawback, esp. one which counterbalances a benefit.
1968Saturday Rev. (U.S.) 2 Mar. 51/3 The argument [about supersonic transport]..should be about the benefits to the thousands and the disbenefits to the millions. 1971Nature 30 Apr. 541/1 There is even..a sophisticated attempt to measure in pounds sterling what is called the ‘disbenefit’ to people living near the alternative sites for the third airport. 1975Physics Bull. Jan. 20/3 Science and engineering have brought disbenefits to our societies and raised very difficult problems. 1982Times 29 Oct. 13/3 If a third child was wantonly produced the family suffered by what are now being called disbenefits: the advantages going to the virtuous were reversed. 1984Oxf. Univ. Gaz. Suppl. 16 Feb. 504/2 They are frequently given the disbenefit of the doubt and assumed to have II(2)s, on the ground that if they had II(1)s they would have said so.
Also (rare) as v. trans., to cause disbenefit to, to affect unfavourably.
1978Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts CXXVI. 430/1 To the extent that the bus services concerned become slower or more irregular as a result, the larger number of people on the buses will be disbenefited. |