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disabled

disabled

27 3.3
People with a long-term physical or mental condition that limits daily activities
  • noun
  • /dɪsˈeɪbld/
translation icon : persona con discapacidad
  • Advocates are pushing for better accessibility measures to support disabled individuals in all public spaces.
  • learning disabled
  • the disabled and the elderly
  • the disabled and visible minorities

But of course as soon as you say that, oh, you want to force the disabled to work to work.

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Examples

  • Thus, job opportunities can be provided to the disabled, and limitations in other jobs can be compensated.

    Academic text (2000)
  • What message does he think this sends to disabled people?

  • I also think that disabled people help us find purpose.

  • Then there is the disabled community, which is split.

  • Why is there no data on the millions of disabled people who are now suffering?

  • The facility for the disabled.

  • The government will establish a welfare fund for the disabled, with money to be used specifically.

    Academic text (2000)
  • And during COVID, what wound up happening is that disabled people lost everything.

  • Job opportunities for disabled people have not been protected, and sometimes the disabled may even face obstructions that are more serious.

    Academic text (2000)
  • And for Medicaid, young, poor and disabled women make up the majority of the recipients.

Antonyms

30 4.2

A person who is physically strong and healthy

How Severe

oligophrenic
  • Slur
1 9.9
disabled
27 3.3
non-handicapped
  • Archaic
5.3

Surface Forms

disabled singular
disableds plural

Etymology

Disabled is also used as a noun for a group of people and has the same parts dis- 'not' and able 'able to do something', so it refers to people who have long-term physical or mental limits that affect daily life.