Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Lenitive; tending to alleviate.
  • noun That which mitigates or tends to moderate or alleviate.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Tending to mitigate; alleviating.

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  • adjective Serving to mitigate.

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  • adjective moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear

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Examples

  • The results of the recent climate negotiations in Copenhagen and Cancun give no sign that policymakers are going to take real mitigative action anytime soon, so executives need to ask what a post-Holocene climate means for their businesses.

    Gregory Unruh: Business in a Post-Holocene World Gregory Unruh 2011

  • The results of the recent climate negotiations in Copenhagen and Cancun give no sign that policymakers are going to take real mitigative action anytime soon, so executives need to ask what a post-Holocene climate means for their businesses.

    Gregory Unruh: Business in a Post-Holocene World Gregory Unruh 2011

  • "Our initial guidance on these strategies focused on the mitigative actions themselves, but we also need to consider things such as operator training and maintaining the related equipment," said Eric Leeds, director of the NRC's Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.

    Nuclear Plants to Submit Plans in Case of 'Extreme Event' Ryan Tracy 2011

  • Particularly regarding my adaptive and mitigative capacity.

    ProWomanProLife » Women and climate change 2010

  • The results of the recent climate negotiations in Copenhagen and Cancun give no sign that policymakers are going to take real mitigative action anytime soon, so executives need to ask what a post-Holocene climate means for their businesses.

    Gregory Unruh: Business in a Post-Holocene World Gregory Unruh 2011

  • The utility didn't endorse automatic-shutoff equipment "as a general mitigative measure" but only for "specific conditions such as bridge crossings, river crossings, earthquake fault crossings, etc.," the memo said.

    PG&E Shunned Use of Gas-Shutoff Valves Rebecca Smith 2011

  • With the new president taking up with great gusto the task of curbing carbon pollution, the tide of public opinion seemed to have turned in favor of prompt mitigative action.

    Sunil Sharan: Resolving the Global Warming Paradox 2010

  • With the new president taking up with great gusto the task of curbing carbon pollution, the tide of public opinion seemed to have turned in favor of prompt mitigative action.

    Resolving the Global Warming Paradox 2010

  • Forbes et al. [51] concluded that “in terms of conservation, anthropogenic patch dynamics appear as a force to be reckoned with when plans are made for even highly circumscribed and ostensibly mitigative land use in the more productive landscapes of the increasingly accessible Arctic”.

    Human impacts on the biodiversity of the Arctic 2009

  • These include approaches that elicit preferences directly (such as through contingent valuation methods) as well as those that use indirect methods to infer preferences from actions to purchase related services (for example, through production functions, dose-response relationships, travel costs, replacement costs, or mitigative or avertive expenditures).

    Ecosystems and Human Well-being~ Wetlands and Water~ Wetlands and Water~ Ecosystems and Human Well-being 2008

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