Meaning of drawback in English

drawback

noun [ C ]

/ˈdrɔː.bæk/ us

/ˈdrɑː.bæk/

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a disadvantage or the negative part of a situation:

drawback of One of the drawbacks of living with someone is having to share a bathroom.

There were a few drawbacks, but they were easy to fix.

The benefits of this approach may not be worth the drawbacks.

It's a fantastic system — perhaps the only drawback is the price.

I highly recommend this book despite these minor drawbacks.

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drawback

noun [ C ]

/ˈdrɔ·bæk/

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a disadvantage or problem; the negative part of a situation:

One of the drawbacks of working for a big company is that you have to follow a lot of rules.

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drawback

noun [ C ]

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a disadvantage, or the negative part of a situation, product, etc.:

A drawback for some savers is that the bond has a minimum investment of £10,000.

a big/main/major drawback The design of the computer has one big drawback: a noisy built-in fan.

Every strategic choice has its benefits and drawbacks.

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Examples of drawback

drawback

Whilst this book is a welcome addition to the palaeontological literature, it is important to stress that it suffers some drawbacks.

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Our examples show that algebraic data types with existential component types simultaneously cure all three of these drawbacks.

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The drawback of this system was that precision was compromised.

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Although it has drawbacks, the concept of rights has become such a popular one that we ought to look at it.

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This is a drawback when the number of atomic data is huge, as happens in dense plasmas, because the computer time increases in excess.

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A major drawback of the technique is that only the elastic pulmonary arteries are accessible to current ultrasound catheters.

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One of the drawbacks of sniffer dogs is that it is difficult or impossible to find out exactly which chemical species is triggering their response.

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A drawback of this definition is that it requires the existence of several evaluation functions (implementations) for the same syntax.

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No longer was music's dependence on immediate sensations a drawback or a shortcoming, but rather the source of its strength and expressive power.

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These same drawbacks do not exist with respect to cabinet experience, which measures changes in cabinet composition rather than a diversity of events.

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A few settings were proposed, each with advantages and drawbacks.

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The choice of these variances can be a challenge and is one of the drawbacks of the method.

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Although that finding does not make all other evaluations totally useless, awareness of their drawbacks is important when interpreting and assessing their results.

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The overconstrained mechanisms have the drawback of jamming or undergoing high internal loads when geometric errors occur.

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Another drawback of the algorithms mentioned above is that they are all extremely computationally intensive.

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Collocations with drawback

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main drawback

Such a poor resolution in the ver tical direction is actually the main drawback of using the scheme presented to per form monochromatic imaging.

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major drawback

The major drawback of parallel robots is their limited range of motion.

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obvious drawback

The obvious drawback of this, however, is the increased computational cost.

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Translations of drawback

in Chinese (Traditional)

缺點，弱點, 不利因素…

Meaning of drawback in English

drawback | American Dictionary

drawback | Business English

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