Object

• impact: The important thing here is to mitigate any negative impact on your network.

• risk: Can you do anything to mitigate the risk from another's business?

• effect: Nor did these policies mitigate the effects of the impact of work stresses on family life.

• consequence: The final effects of lobbying to mitigate the likely consequences for churches is still awaited.

• vulnerability: Microsoft has released software that can be used to mitigate a critical vulnerability in Internet Explorer.

Preposition: against

• impact: We have been advising university clients on measures they can take to mitigate against the potential impact of the Enterprise Act.

• risk: The valuation accuracy performance indicator may mitigate against this risk to some extent by placing a limit on the acceptable level of variance.

• effect: The Bulgarian military contingent in the camp has offered to help make improvements to mitigate against effects of flooding.

• development: Traditional approaches may mitigate against the development of critical thinking skills.

Noun phrase with adjective complement

• such: New and enhanced features will be developed to mitigate problems such as the re-circulation of pollutants, bacteria and viruses.

Modifying Another Word

• satisfactorily: In circumstances where it is not possible to satisfactorily mitigate adverse effects, approval or financial support should not be given.

• adequately: Consider the impact on an organization if it does not adequately mitigate risks.

• substantially: This therefore mitigates substantially the risk that the funder is taking in granting the loan.

Used with why or when

• what: Did we become reluctantly involved to mitigate what we felt would otherwise be an inappropriate form of external regulation?