mitigation in English dictionary

  • mitigation

    Meanings and definitions of "mitigation"

    • relief; alleviation
    • noun
      relief; alleviation
    • relief
    • The act of creating a strategy for handling a problem or set of problems that will either fix the problem or make its effects as painless as possible.
    • noun
      a partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances
    • noun
      the action of lessening in severity or intensity; "the object being control or moderation of economic depressions"
    • noun
      to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious

    Synonyms of "mitigation" in English dictionary

    self-justification, moderation, reduction are the top synonyms of "mitigation" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of mitigation

    • mitigation ( plural  mitigations)
    • mitigation (countable and uncountable, plural mitigations)
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