Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: drawbacks
IPA transcription: [dɹ'ɔb,æks]
Usage examples
  • OF DRAWBACKS.
  • Of these encouragements, what are called drawbacks seem to be the most reasonable.
  • The problem to be solved was to market an agglomerated material so as to avoid the drawbacks of fine ore.
  • The revenue of the customs, instead of suffering, profits from such drawbacks, by that part of the duty which is retained.
  • The consciousness of these three obvious drawbacks made him distrustful of himself; he doubted his power to make me happy, and guessed that he had been chosen as the lesser of two evils.