detriment Meaning & Definition

  • En [ ˈdet.rɪ.mənt]
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Meaning of detriment In English

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Examples of detriment

  • Ultimately, the public health concern was taken into account without requiring any redistribution to the detriment of industrial use.

  • Much medical education still focuses predominantly on drug treatment, and commercial interests continue to fuel this to the detriment of non-drug treatments.

  • The two approaches have been on increasingly divergent paths for several decades, to their mutual detriment and despite overlapping areas of inquiry.

  • Regrettably, some anthropologists have begun to silence their own voices, ostensibly to create spaces for indigenous voices, but ultimately to everyone's detriment.

  • Alternatively, the benefit to others justifies the (lesser) detriment suffered by the individual.

  • The industry was composed of small, highly flexible units - to its advantage and detriment.

  • Indeed, she charges that much feminist representation has privileged gender to the detriment of race and class.

  • The result was an emphasis on technical issues, perhaps in some cases to the detriment of the development of the music itself.

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Translations of detriment In Other Languages

  • 中文繁体

    危害,損害…

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  • 中文简体

    危害,损害…

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  • Español

    detrimento, perjuicio…

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  • Português

    detrimento, prejuízo…

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  • Français

    détriment…

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  • Čeština

    škoda, úkor, neprospěch…

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  • Dansk

    skade…

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  • Indonesia

    kerusakan…

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