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handicap English

Meaning handicap meaning

What does handicap mean?
Definitions in simple English

handicap Noun

— Something that makes someone disadvantaged. This often refers to being disabled physically or mentally. — A change made in a race or competition to make it more equal. This might involve giving one player more time, or extra points at the start.

handicap Verb

— To figure out who has the best chance of winning a race or competition — To be disadvantaged

handicap

— noun advantage given to a competitor to equalize chances of winning — noun (= disability, impairment) the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness reading disability hearing impairment — verb (= disable) injure permanently He was disabled in a car accident — verb (= hinder) put at a disadvantage The brace I have to wear is hindering my movements — verb attempt to forecast the winner (especially in a horse race) and assign odds for or against a contestant — noun (= hindrance) something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress

Synonyms handicap synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as handicap?

handicap English » English

disadvantage hindrance disability impediment hinder obstacle drawback impairment barrier impede hamper disablement injury disable trig trammel obstruct lameness invalid inconvenience incapacitate inadvisability hinderance embarrass disorder deterrent cripple check blockage block baulk balk weakness unfavourable unfavorable trouble trimming trench trauma thwart stunt strain shortcoming shortage scratch restrictive weakness restrict prevent obtrusion obstruction

Topics handicap topics

What do people use handicap to talk about?
Person Healthy

Disabled
Work and occupation Work Difficult, impossible

Advantage

Conjugation handicap conjugation

How do you conjugate handicap?

handicap · verb

Examples handicap examples

How do I use handicap in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Her fear of flying is a serious handicap in her career.
Tom won the race despite his handicap.
You play golf? What's your handicap?
Poor eyesight is a handicap to a sportsman.

Movie subtitles

Remember, 200 yards running is considerable of a handicap.
And here's a letter which certainly won't handicap you in seeking employment.
George Parratt, handicap 18!
You sure you don't want the handicap I offered you?
You should've taken that five-length handicap I offered you.
In a handicap, Chestnut King looks like an odds-on favorite.
We'll have to give you a handicap, Michael.
Beer Barrel, what's your handicap?
And what's more important, you got real good manners seein' how you suffer the handicap of having never been in Tennessee.
However, Santa Anna does not suffer under the same handicap.
In just a few minutes, the second race of the day, the los tendres handicap.
I used to know how to write, but with this handicap, I've forgotten how.
A handicap is what you make of it.
Mrs Keller, I don't think Helen's worst handicap is deafness or blindness.
Two hundred yards running is considerable of a handicap.
He won the Palermo handicap three times.
They've trained him for the handicap.!
It gives me great pleasure to have a Quintana horse in the handicap.
When you keep a horse in the barn on handicap day, when he runs the mile in 1:36, you are a. you are a criminal.
I'll never be a handicap.
What's your handicap?
And what's more important, you got real good manners, seein' how you suffer the handicap of having never been in Tennessee.
They consider you a handicap for Jerry.
They've trained him for the handicap.
A minor handicap.
Have I been a handicap?
No newspaper can function under this handicap.
You said you'd accept her handicap!
So you thought of that handicap. And you're hurting them.
Pete would have been a bit of a handicap. in the marriage stakes, wouldn't he?
For a stud, that's a handicap.
I still ought to have a handicap.

News and current affairs

Egypt suffers from another political handicap: it is an Arab country, and there are no Arab democracies.
They see a president committed to the advancement of all Americans, regardless of race, gender, creed, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, handicap, or economic status.
Alternatively, a new EU financial regulator could handicap own-country bonds by requiring banks holding them to set aside more capital.
This vision should make republican efforts proportional to the importance of people's handicap in order to free them from the burden of their initial conditions.
First, while authoritarianism can accelerate reforms, it can also be a serious handicap.
On the other hand, the absence of a real sports policy (or its unraveling) can become a decisive handicap.
However, the absence of rapid growth in western Europe and Japan is not a great handicap for developing countries, because Europe and Japan were never all that open to imports from developing countries to begin with.
In fact, the whole population of the lower castes did not suffer from an equal degree of ritual handicap.
Where anti-terrorist planning is concerned, however, non-interference has become ASEAN's biggest handicap.
With a colossal and diverse geography of 1.2 million square kilometers, Colombia's dramatically inadequate infrastructure is as much a handicap for economic development as poor security.
But, given that these parties are competing with the far right for the same disenchanted voters, their humanism on these issues has become a severe political handicap, which may explain why the extreme right has lately been more successful electorally.
Any one of these would be a handicap at a time of rising populism, but the combination of all three is lethal.

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