Forfeiture vs Disadvantage - What's the difference?
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(legal) A legal action whereby a person loses all interest in the forfeit property.
(legal) The loss of forfeit property.
(legal) The property lost as a forfeit.
Any loss occasioned by one's own actions.
A weakness or undesirable characteristic; a con.
A setback or handicap.
* Burke
* Palfrey
Loss; detriment; hindrance.
* Bancroft
To place at a disadvantage.
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Forfeiture is a related term of disadvantage.
As nouns the difference between forfeiture and disadvantage
is that forfeiture is (legal) a legal action whereby a person loses all interest in the forfeit property while disadvantage is a weakness or undesirable characteristic; a con.As a verb disadvantage is
to place at a disadvantage.forfeiture
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Noun
(en noun)disadvantage
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Alternative forms
* disadvauntage (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- The disadvantage to owning a food processor is that you have to store it somewhere.
- My height is a disadvantage for reaching high shelves.
- I was brought here under the disadvantage of being unknown by sight to any of you.
- Abandoned by their great patron, the faction henceforward acted at disadvantage .
- They would throw a construction on his conduct, to his disadvantage before the public.
Synonyms
* (an undesirable characteristic) afterdeal, con, drawback, downside * (a handicap) afterdeal, weaknessAntonyms
* advantageVerb
(disadvantag)- They fear it might disadvantage honest participants to allow automated entries.
London Is Special, but Not That Special," New York Times (retrieved 28 September 2013):
- For London to have its own exclusive immigration policy would exacerbate the sense that immigration benefits only certain groups and disadvantages the rest. It would entrench the gap between London and the rest of the nation. And it would widen the breach between the public and the elite that has helped fuel anti-immigrant hostility.
