impairment

English

Alternative forms

• empairment (rare)

Etymology

impair +‎ -ment

Noun

impairment (countable and uncountable, plural impairments)

1. The result of being impaired
2. A deterioration or weakening
3. A disability or handicap

   visual impairment

4. an inefficient part or factor.
5. (accounting) A downward revaluation, a write-down.

Translations

result of being impaired

• Dutch: handicap (nl) m
• Finnish: häiriö (fi), vika (fi), vamma (fi)
• French: handicap (fr) m
• German: Verschlechterung (de) f, Schwächung (de) f, Behinderung (de) f, Beeinträchtigung (de) f, Minderung (de) f, Verminderung f, Schädigung (de) f, Störung (de) f, Abschwächung (de) f, Schmälerung f, Einschränkung (de) f, Wertminderung (de) f
• Hungarian: romlás (hu), megromlás, leromlás, gyengülés, károsodás (hu)
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• Italian: indebolimento (it)
• Macedonian: нарушување (narušuvanje), оштетување (oštetuvanje), намалување (namaluvanje)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: svekkelse m

• Serbo-Croatian: oštećenje (sh), hendikep (sh), onesposobljenost

accounting

• Danish: nedskrivning c
• Finnish: arvonalentuminen, arvonalennus
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• Swedish: nedskrivning (sv) c