detriment

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.