0 the process of limiting the damaging effects of an action or mistake, or the attempt in war to use careful planning to avoid unnecessary death:
1 the process of limiting the harmful effects of an action or a mistake:
From the first, it has been my view that we have been involved in a great damage limitation exercise.
Public ownership meant that management was limited to damage limitation and political pressure.
Flood risk assessment and management should be the basis of long-term plans for engineering works, information systems and other means of flood damage limitation.
As an educational policy, damage limitation is an admission of defeat: we can't replace dialect variation.
There thus does not need to be a huge contrast between the policy of damage limitation and the policy of drug prevention.
Because tourism can also have a harmful impact on the environment, there needs to be a strategy for damage limitation.
The real clue to his speech was when he said that he commends the exercise in damage limitation.
Does he agree that the emphasis in all anti-drug education should be not merely damage limitation but proactive resistance to the taking of drugs?
