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Definition of Mitigation

1. Noun. To act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious.

2. Noun. A partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances.

3. Noun. The action of lessening in severity or intensity. "The object being control or moderation of economic depressions"

Definition of Mitigation

1. n. The act of mitigating, or the state of being mitigated; abatement or diminution of anything painful, harsh, severe, afflictive, or calamitous; as, the mitigation of pain, grief, rigor, severity, punishment, or penalty.

Definition of Mitigation

1. Noun. relief; alleviation ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Mitigation

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Mitigation

1. Steps taken to avoid or minimise negative environmental impacts. Mitigation can include: avoiding the impact by not taking a certain action; minimising impacts by limiting the degree or magnitude of the action; rectifying the impact by repairing or restoring the affected environment; reducing the impact by protective steps required with the action; and compensating for the impact by replacing or providing substitute resources. (05 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mitigation

mithril miticidal miticide miticides mitier mitiest mitigable mitigant mitigants mitigate

mitigated mitigates mitigating mitigating circumstance mitigatingly mitigation (current term) mitigations mitigative mitigator mitigators

mitigatory miting mitis mitises mitobronitol mitochondria mitochondrial mitochondrial DNA mitochondrial chromosome mitochondrial disease

Literary usage of Mitigation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Societal Value of Geologic Maps by Richard L. Bernknopf (1994)
"No mitigation mitigation required Proposed western bypass corridor No ... Distribution of cells requiring mitigation of slope failures arising from road ..."

2. The Changing Structure of the Electric Power Industry: An Update by Rebecca A. McNerney (1998)
"It should also be noted that not all the mitigation strategies that have been discussed ... In a sense, FERC legitimized the notion of adopting mitigation ..."

3. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1918)
"considered in mitigation of damages, and, on the other hand, allowing the ... Annotation—mitigation of damages for wrongful attachment by showing subsequent ..."

4. A Brief for the Trial of Criminal Cases by Austin Abbott, William Constantine Beecher (1902)
"mitigation. 255. Where jury fix punishment. Where the statute authorizes the jury to fix the punishment in case the accused is found guilty, he is entitled ..."

5. Code Remedies: Remedies and Remedial Rights by the Civil Action According to by John Norton Pomeroy, Thomas Ashford Bogle (1904)
"New York Doctrine as to Pleading Matter in mitigation. On principle, then, all defences in mitigation of damages, when they consist of new matter, ..."

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