People who are disadvantaged or live in disadvantaged areas live in bad conditions and tend not to get a good education or have a reasonable standard of living.
例句
...the educational problems of disadvantaged children...贫困儿童的教育问题The centre aims to help disadvantaged areas of Europe, mainly by fostering new businesses.该中心旨在帮助欧洲的贫困地区,方法主要是通过扶持新型商业。
英英词典释义
Adjective
1. marked by deprivation especially of the necessities of life or healthful environmental influences;
"a childhood that was unhappy and deprived, the family living off charity""boys from a deprived environment, wherein the family life revealed a pattern of neglect, moral degradation, and disregard for law"