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Meaning of "worse off" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF WORSE OFF

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WORSE OFF

worse
worse luck!
worsen
worseness
worsening
worser
worset
worship
worshipable
worshiper
worshipful
worshipfully
worshipfulness
worshipless
worshipped
worshipper
worshipping
worst
worst case
worst off

WORDS THAT END LIKE WORSE OFF

come off
cone off
give off
hive off
leave off
make off
measure off
on and off
race off
score off
see off
shake off
shove off
shuffle off
square off
stave off
strike off
take off
tee off
time off
write off

Synonyms and antonyms of worse off in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «worse off» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WORSE OFF

Find out the translation of worse off to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of worse off from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «worse off» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

更糟
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

en peor situación
570 millions of speakers

English

worse off
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बदतर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

أسوأ حالا
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

хуже
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pior
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

খারাপ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

pire
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Lebih teruk
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

schlechter
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

オフ悪化し
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

더 나쁜
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Luwih elek
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tồi tệ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மோசமானது
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वाईटात वाईट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Daha kötü
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

peggio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

gorzej
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

гірше
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

mai rău
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

χειρότερα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

slegter af
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

det sämre
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

verre
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WORSE OFF»

The term «worse off» is regularly used and occupies the 55.265 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WORSE OFF» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about worse off

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WORSE OFF»

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1
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Witty, entertaining and provocative, this is a unique and important book that will transform your perspective of parenting forever.
Amy Chua, 2012
2
Inequality
Another way of looking at this situation is to consider the size of the gap between what the worse-off have and what it seems they "should" have, relative to how well-off they actually are. For example, although on the relative to the best-off ...
Larry S. Temkin Associate Professor of Philosophy Rice University, 1992
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Justice, Equality and Constructivism: Essays on G. A. ...
to some extent: after all the group is worse off to some extent as a result of its members chosen acts, so in this respect the present case is analogous to my first case involving individual choice. However, the distribution is unjust to the extent ...
Brian Feltham, 2009
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Inequality
concern for how someone fares relative to the best-off person but no concern for how someone fares relative to someone who might be ever-so-slightly worse off than the best- off person. More generally, one might ask why one should care ...
Larry S. Temkin, 1993
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Ethical Dimensions of Health Policy
It displays how one aspect of potential treatment benefit plays a role in determining which patients are worse-off. Urgency captures the aspect of who is worse-off that is future directed but ignores how well- or badly-off a person has been in the ...
Marion Danis, Carolyn M. Clancy, Larry R. Churchill, 2002
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Knowing Poverty: Critical Reflections on Participatory ...
Critical Reflections on Participatory Research and Policy Rosemary McGee. What are the major events (positive and negative) in village history and how has life changed? Has the village and/or worse-off households become betteroff or ...
Rosemary McGee, 2012
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Rethinking the Good: Moral Ideals and the Nature of ...
The Second Standard View for Equality (SSVE)—Trade-offs between Inequality Gaps and Numbers Are Sometimes Undesirable Even When Vast Numbers Are at Stake: If the size of the gap between the betterand worse-off in one outcome is  ...
Larry S. Temkin, 2012
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The Case for Animal Rights
Indeed, since the worse-off principle directs us to prevent making the individual worse-off, special considerations aside, that principle, it might be claimed, requires that we override the rights of the four and administer to the needs of the driver, ...
Tom Regan, 2004
9
Morality, Mortality: Death and whom to save from it
Cases where we help the person who will lose the most are typically cases where not preventing the greater loss signifies that its sufferer would be worse off by reaching a lower level than the sufferer of the lesser loss. But, in our case, L and M ...
Frances Myrna Kamm, 1998
10
The Ethics of Health Care Rationing: An Introduction
On this rule, any small gain for the worse off, no matter how small, can justify a great loss for the better off – regardless of the number of people who would suffer that loss. This counterintuitive implication, which directly follows from the rejection  ...
Greg Bognar, Iwao Hirose, 2014

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WORSE OFF»

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Bill Clinton says he made mass incarceration issue worse by …
“I signed a bill that made the problem worse,” Clinton told an audience at the National ... “Mass incarceration makes our country worse off and we need to do ... «WTTV CBS4Indy, Jul 15»
2
International Business|Is Greece Worse Off Than the US During the …
But it is Greece – and in some ways, the situation is worse. “Greece is in its own Great Depression. But unlike the United States, it won't be able to get back on its ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
3
Budget calculator: work out how your finances have changed
Input your details on this Budget calculator, above, to work out whether the Chancellor's measures mean you will be better or worse off. Alternatively, try out the ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
4
Minimum wage families 'are still worse off than in 2008' after years of …
Britain's poorest families are still far worse off than in 2008 after years of austerity, a study has found. A two-child couple living on minimum wage is £74 a week ... «Mirror.co.uk, Jun 15»
5
Workers '£100 a week worse off than before recession'
UK workers are almost £100 a week worse off than before the credit crunch hit because of the country's poor productivity levels, a new report claims. A financial ... «ITV News, Jun 15»
6
Greece may be even worse off than the US was during the Great …
But, Bloomberg's Tom Keene says that regardless of your classification, the country is actually worse off today than the United States was in 1933 — at the very ... «Business Insider, Jun 15»
7
Coles workers worse off under deal with shoppies union
Thousands of low-paid workers will be worse off under a sweetheart deal struck between supermarket giant Coles and the shop assistants union that undercuts ... «Sydney Morning Herald, May 15»
8
Renting lifers 500000 worse off than those who buy in their 20s
Families who are never able to get on the property ladder will be more than £561,000 worse off over their lifetime than those who can buy a home in their 20s, ... «24dash, Mar 15»
9
Families still worse off than when Tories came to power, study claims
It also says average households are still more than 2 per cent worse off than at the last election and calculates that working-age adults have fared worse than ... «The Independent, Mar 15»
10
Department of Human Services staff $920 a year worse off if pay …
They claim staff running Centrelink and Medicare will be $920 worse off per year if the latest Department of Human Services pay offer goes through. Labor's ... «The Canberra Times, Feb 15»

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