handicapped person
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3.4
- noun
- /ˈhændɪˌkæpt ˈpɜrsən/
- Slur
:
minusválido (antiguo, ofensivo)
- Other enterprises could include financial services for the poor, educational institutions, training centers, renewable energy ventures, old-age homes, institutions for handicapped persons, recycling enterprises, and the marketing of products made by the poor.
- visually handicapped person
Examples
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In some voting districts, I was informed yesterday, poll workers come to the curb with an electronic machine so a handicapped person need not exit the vehicle.
Blog text (32) -
Special provisions for physically handicapped persons.
Blog text (32) -
I had never helped a handicapped person before.
Fiction book (1993) -
Access for handicapped persons is a difficult problem in designing an observatory.
Academic text (2003) -
We were informed that visually handicapped people work into their 80s and 90s.
Academic text (1991) -
Mainstreaming enabled the handicapped person to be prepared for interaction with peers in nonspecialized settings.
Academic text (1991) -
The companions are a group of specially trained dogs that are assigned to help handicapped persons.
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Alice asked how many handicapped persons we have in this office.
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Mainstreaming enabled the handicapped person to be prepared for interaction with peers.
How Disabled
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a straightforward combination of 'handicapped' (describing someone with a physical or mental disability) and 'person' (a human individual), so a B1 learner who knows both words can readily infer it refers to a person with a disability. This is a simple compositional noun phrase following common cross-linguistic patterns, making its meaning transparent.
Etymology
Handicapped person comes from the old word handicap, which was a rule that added weight or a disadvantage in races to make things fair. Because handicap meant a 'disadvantage', people used handicapped person to describe someone with a physical or mental disadvantage. That's why it came to mean 'a person with a disability'.