- [usually before noun]
having less money and fewer opportunities than most people in society synonym disadvantaged在社会中处于弱势的;贫苦的;机遇少的;底层的 underprivileged sections of the community 社区的弱势阶层 educationally/socially underprivileged groups 教育上/社会上处于弱势地位的群体 No one from these educationally underprivileged groups has a chance of getting to university. 这些教育水平低下的群体中没有人有机会上大学。 The party aims to represent the interests of the underprivileged sections of society. 该党旨在代表社会贫困阶层的利益。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryUnderprivileged is used with these nouns:- child
- the underprivilegednoun [plural]
people who are underprivileged 弱势群体;贫困阶层