Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Anything disadvantageous
Etymologies
- dis- + benefit (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The converse of this benefit to consumers is of course a disbenefit to manufacturers and retailers who have made profits from segmenting markets and charging higher prices in one than another.”
“To illustrate this point, he observed that iTunes charge 79p a track regardless of the existence of sound recording protection or lack thereof, and concluded that extending copyright would not act to the disbenefit of consumers.”
“If it inures to my disbenefit, then it inures to my disbenefit.”
“It was to our disbenefit in a sense," he told his colleagues.”
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“But what's the point of doing the same for other traffic if it's to the disbenefit of people trying to cross the A200 trying to get to the park/to work? because public transport doesn't own the roads ... it shares the roads. the issue is about speeding up the stop start flow of traffic by getting rid of some traffic lights ... no brainer really”
“Basically, consumers in North America are rediscovering the grocery store and cooking at home again, clearly to the benefit of some and the disbenefit of others as many restaurants really struggle in the U.S. right now.”
“But Communities and Local Government minister Shahid Malik said his department has no plans to end its use, and would do so only when "the benefits for doing so outweigh any disbenefit or cost". at Kable.”
“This is often referred to as the "NOx disbenefit", something that even EPA acknowledges occurs.”
“2 The disbenefit of cameras has not been calculated out, highlighted or made clear - although the source figures are there.”
“I don’t agree that the dominant groups benefit from racism, they suffer a smaller disbenefit, but it is still a disbenefit, the world would be better for almost everyone without racism.”
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personal distaste
good grief, I'm getting irritable.
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Tweets
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bilby "Mr McKenzie said giving Metro and V/Line shared use of the platforms would require construction of a new rail overpass across the Sunbury line, new V/Line train stabling yards and new overhead electric wires.
'A full economic evaluation of the (Metro) proposal was carried out, which showed the reliability benefits were not justified given the cost and passenger disbenefits,' he wrote."
- Adam Carey, Peak-hour rail crisis coming, Metro warns, 26 Nov 2012.
Nov 25, 2012
sarra aaaaaaaaaaaaargh. May 28, 2008