mitigation

English

Etymology

From Middle French mitigation, from Latin mitigatio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪtɪˈɡeɪʃən/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

mitigation (countable and uncountable, plural mitigations)

1. A reduction or decrease of something harmful or unpleasant.
   • 1842, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Lady Anne Granard, volume 1, page 213:

     Two golden hours, in which the astonishing news of the intended party was revealed to Louisa, with all of its contrivances, expenses, and mitigations, so far as they were elucidated, were given and said to be "done in her honour;"...

   • 2004, Bhattacharya, K., Azizi, P. M., Shobair, S, S,, Mohsini, M. Y., Drought impacts and potential for their mitigation in southern and western Afghanistan, IWMI (→ISBN)

     One possible drought mitigation strategy for Afghanistan is to divert excess water from water-rich river basins to water-scarce river basins in cases where this is technologically, economically and environmentally feasible.

Related terms

• mitigate
• mitigating
• mitigant

Translations

reduction of something harmful

• Arabic: تخفيف‎
• Bengali: আসান (aśan)
• Bulgarian: облекчение (bg) n (oblekčenie), уталожване (bg) n (utaložvane)
• Catalan: mitigació f
• Dutch: opluchting (nl) f, verlichting (nl)
• Finnish: lieventäminen (fi), lievennys, hillitseminen
• French: soulagement (fr) m
• German: Erleichterung (de), Abmilderung (de) f
• Italian: riduzione (it) f, contenimento (it) m, attenuazione (it) f

• Portuguese: mitigação f
• Russian: смягчение (ru) n (smjaxčenije), уменьшение (ru) n (umenʹšenije), облегчение (ru) n (oblexčenije)
• Serbo-Croatian: ublažavanje, taženje, utaživanje, olakšavanje, olakšanje (sh), mitigacija
• Spanish: mitigación f
• Swedish: förmildrande omständighet, lindring (sv) c
• Urdu: تخفیف‎
• Vietnamese: sự làm nhẹ (vi), sự làm dịu (vi), sự giảm thiểu

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French

Noun

mitigation f (plural mitigations)

1. mitigation

Further reading

• “mitigation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.