detriment
detriment
Definition
det·ri·ment (de′trə mənt)
noun
- damage; injury; harm
- anything that causes damage or injury
Etymology: ME & OFr < L detrimentum, a rubbing off, damage < detritus, pp. of deterere, to rub off, wear away < de-, off, from + terere, to rub: see throw
detriment
Synonyms
detriment
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- suffer: He later claimed that he had suffered a detriment for raising the complaint.
- outweigh: In summary, we do not think that the potential benefits outweigh the detriments we have identified.
- offset: I am not persuaded that barriers to entry are low enough to offset the potential detriment to competition.
- constitute: The tribunal decided that the fact that the claimant never received the benefit of Monday bank holidays did constitute a detriment.
- cause: NOTES 1. Tackling the consumer detriment caused by mass-marketed scams is one of the OFT's five priority areas identified in its Annual Plan.
- relate: Detriment related to trade union membership 4. Schedule 2 shall have effect.
Preposition: as
- result: That means that they must not be subject to any detriment as a result.
Adjective modifier
- serious: Potential loss of academic and research staff in addition to this will result in a serious detriment to the research infrastructure.
- obvious: In terms of helping the fuel poor this has an obvious detriment.
- significant: The fact that he also had to wait, occasionally, on the motorway, did not amount to a significant detriment.
- long-term: Concerns about public opinion need to be balanced against the long-term detriment to public welfare of not performing such studies.
- severe: B - and would be to the severe detriment of this important Conservation Area and the visual amenity of this part of Aberdeen.
- financial: Victims with more serious injuries should be compensated properly without financial detriment being imposed upon other victims.
Noun used with modifier
- consumer: There is no evidence of consumer detriment in the present very small market.
Preposition: of
- consumer: But the imbalance must be to the detriment of the consumer.
- amenity: The remainder spent every day and many moonlit nights furiously digging and erecting defenses to the detriment of seaside amenities.
- society: Participate in voluntary initiatives which seek to identify and minimize the externalization of costs to the detriment of society at large.
- investor: But progress must not be made through short cuts achieved to the detriment of investors ' rights.
- farmer: And ultimately such decoupled payments may prove to be to the detriment of farmers here too.
Preposition: under
- era: Protection from detriment under the ERA for enforcing or attempting to enforce the right to request.
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