0 a feeling of happiness that something unpleasant has not happened or has ended:
1 food, money, or services that provide help for people in need:
2 a method of raising shapes above a flat surface so that they appear to stand out slightly from it:
3 a feeling of happiness that something unpleasant has not happened or has ended:
4 food, money, or services for people in need:
disaster relief
5 the building up of parts of a surface to form a picture or design that can be seen above the background, or a work of art made by this method:
[ C ] the reliefs of the Parthenon
6 financial help that is given to people, companies, or countries that cannot pay their taxes or debts:
All of the more than 3 million people who file income taxes in Virginia will be eligible for the $100 relief when they file their returns for the last fiscal year.
Congress must reach consensus quickly on the issue of economic relief for the airline industry.
Satellite-television subscribers should get relief from some of the taxes on their monthly bills under new legislation.
give/offer/provide relief (to sb) Tax-cut proposals could offer relief to homeowners
get/obtain relief (from sth) Because of the Fed's move to cut interest rates, people whose mortgages are adjusting may get some relief.
7 financial help that the government gives to people who are poor, unemployed, etc.:
8 money, food, and clothing that is sent to people who are in a difficult situation because of a war, flood, very bad storm, etc.:
To the bride's relief, the wedding ceremony went off without a hitch.
There was manifest relief among the workers yesterday at the decision not to close the factory.
In spite of the scale of the famine, the relief workers struggled on with dauntless optimism and commitment.
Campaigning to change government policy is ancillary to the charity's direct relief work.
The continuing civil war is frustrating the efforts of relief agencies to feed thousands of famine victims.
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