0 past simple and past participle of merit
1 If something merits a particular treatment, it deserves or is considered important enough to be treated in that way:
If cases merited secondary care, then the interface workers acted as a referral point to the centralized services.
There are two further elements that go into figuring out if an injunction is merited.
A reward or punishment, unlike an incentive or disincentive, is understood to be merited or deserved.
Clearly more research in this area is merited.
The importance of the issue merited head-on treatment in a dedicated section or chapter to tie together all the issues and questions raised surrounding it.
It is, in places, rather too sweeping in some of its conclusions, and glides over issues that might have merited more careful assessment.
Despite the breadth of topics discussed in the book, there are three subjects that should have merited more consistent attention.
Some older men exerted authority because they merited it, but old age in itself did not grant automatic influence - much like now.
