disbenefitn.
(stress variable).
Loss or absence of benefit; a disadvantage or drawback, esp. one which counterbalances a benefit.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > [noun] > a disadvantage
damage1398
disadvantagec1425
afterdeal1481
disprofit?1555
where the shoe pinches?a1580
drawbacka1640
negative1702
take-off1797
letdown1840
disamenity1864
handicap1872
back-draw1883
disbenefit1968
1968 Sat. 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.
1971 Nature 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.
1975 Physics Bull. Jan. 20/3 Science and engineering have brought disbenefits to our societies and raised very difficult problems.
1982 Times 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.
1984 Oxf. 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.
Derivatives
disbenefit v. rare (transitive) to cause disbenefit to, to affect unfavourably.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > [verb (transitive)]
disvail14..
disavail1429
disadvantage?c1550
to weaken the hands of1560
disvantage1567
to take the wind out of the sails of1822
handicap1857
to stack the cards (etc.) against1941
disbenefit1978
1978 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 126 430/1 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.
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