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mitigations

mitigations is the plural of mitigation.

Meaning of mitigation

Noun

mitigation (countable and uncountable, plural mitigations)

  1. A reduction or decrease of something harmful or unpleasant.
    • 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;"...1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 213

Questions about mitigations

What is mitigations the plural of?
Mitigations is the plural of mitigation.

Words near mitigations in the dictionary

  1. mitigating circumstances
  2. mitigating factor
  3. mitigatingly
  4. mitigation
  5. mitigational
  6. mitigations
  7. mitigative
  8. mitigator
  9. mitigators
  10. mitigatory
  11. mitiglinide

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