Synonyms for drawback
ˈdrɔˌbækdraw·back

Princeton's WordNet

1. drawbacknoun

   the quality of being a hindrance

   "he pointed out all the drawbacks to my plan"

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1. • Disadvantage

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1. drawbacknoun

   Synonyms:
   disadvantage, detriment, injury, damage, faultiness, imperfection, deficiency

2. drawbacknoun

   Synonyms:
   discount, allowance, deduction, reduction, rebate, abatement

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1. drawbacknoun

   Synonyms:
   disadvantage, hindrance, defect, imperfection, rebate, deduction, discount

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1. List of paraphrases for "drawback":

   disadvantage, drawbacks, inconvenience, downside, shortcoming, cla, handicap

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1. Yvonne Maldonado:

   Pooled testing can be one good option if schools decide to do routing surveillance testing. The benefits are that the tests can be batched and run together, decreasing time to getting The Results and potentially decreasing cost of testing, the major drawback is that pooled testing is best used in low prevalence settings, because if there is a positive pool then all of the individual samples in that' batch' have to be disaggregated and tested individually to identify the actual positive sample or samples.

2. Sinan Ulgen:

   The drawback to this gambit for Erdogan is that if the AK Party ends up losing votes, we may start to see more open dissatisfaction about his influence.

3. Erica Strausssaid she:

   It’s a fantastic moisturizer, the only drawback is the smell.

4. Sinan Ulgen:

   It will be seen as the party that has forced early elections on a recalcitrant Turkish electorate at a time when there are severe challenges, both from the security perspective and also economically, the drawback to this gambit for Erdogan is that if the AK Party ends up losing votes, we may start to see more open dissatisfaction about his influence.

5. Kurt Russell:

   I didn't want to have a long name, Russell Estates or something. I didn't think trying to slap a name on a bottle that people might recognize was not only, to me, not necessarily a good thing, I thought it was a drawback, gogi is an old nickname of mine, so the brand is GoGi.

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