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| eywho - 1st March 2006 03:25
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| In Town Planning sense, dis-benefit has the sense stronger and more direct than " defect" or "shortcoming" but weaker than "adverse impact". For example, a car park has adverse impact on the traffic flow but disbenefit to the air. Nevertheless, "disbenefit " is somehow not commonly use in daily language.
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| Williams - 4th March 2007 23:55
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| This is not a word that appears in the recognised shorter dictionaries and is not a word that I or my wife (who is very well read) had come across in our combined 95 years on the planet, until it appeared in a local government consultation document about proposed town planning changes. If it is in regular use by town planners, it suggests that they live on a different planet from the men on the streets they purport to plan.
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| doug - 6th November 2007 16:42
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| good / bad or better / worse. There are plenty of better words to show negativity.
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| Stephen B. Cohen - 3rd January 2008 01:25
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| Used in Benefit Analysis: For example, a new, limited-access highway may benefit the highway's users, but may disbenefit the businesses that were along the old highway.
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| Englishman - 17th July 2008 16:11
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| In my long life in the home of English I cannot remember a time when this word was not used! It is an elegant contrast with benefit
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