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Too many countries that do not play by the free trade rules of the World Trade Organization - including, notably mercantilist China and monopolist Saudi Arabia - have been allowed in, to the detriment of both the WTO and the liberal trading environment it is supposed to sponsor.
Frank Gaffney

Meaning of "detriment" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD DETRIMENT

From Latin dētrīmentum, a rubbing off, hence damage, from dēterere to rub away, from de- + terere to rub.
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PRONUNCIATION OF DETRIMENT

detriment  [ˈdɛtrɪmənt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DETRIMENT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Detriment is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DETRIMENT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of detriment in the English dictionary

The definition of detriment in the dictionary is disadvantage or damage; harm; loss. Other definition of detriment is a cause of disadvantage or damage.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DETRIMENT


decrement
ˈdɛkrɪmənt
deployment
dɪˈplɔɪmənt
diriment
ˈdɪrɪmənt
dreariment
ˈdrɪərɪmənt
element
ˈɛlɪmənt
employment
ɪmˈplɔɪmənt
excrement
ˈɛkskrɪmənt
experiment
ɪkˈspɛrɪmənt
herriment
ˈhɛrɪmənt
implement
ˈɪmplɪmənt
increment
ˈɪnkrɪmənt
merriment
ˈmɛrɪmənt
nutriment
ˈnjuːtrɪmənt
payment
ˈpeɪmənt
preexperiment
ˌpriːɪkˈspɛrɪmənt
recrement
ˈrɛkrɪmənt
supplement
ˈsʌplɪmənt
unemployment
ˌʌnɪmˈplɔɪmənt
wariment
ˈwɛərɪmənt
worriment
ˈwʌrɪmənt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DETRIMENT

detractively
detractor
detractory
detractress
detrain
detrainment
detribalisation
detribalise
detribalization
detribalize
detrimental
detrimentally
detrital
detrition
detritovore
detritus
Detroit
detrude
detruncate
detruncation

WORDS THAT END LIKE DETRIMENT

accompaniment
advertisement
aliment
compliment
condiment
control experiment
embodiment
habiliment
impediment
left-handed compliment
liniment
muniment
parachute regiment
piment
presentiment
raiment
regiment
rudiment
sediment
sentiment
speech impediment

Synonyms and antonyms of detriment in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «DETRIMENT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «detriment» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of detriment

Translation of «detriment» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DETRIMENT

Find out the translation of detriment to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of detriment from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «detriment» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

损害
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

detrimento
570 millions of speakers

English

detriment
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

हानि
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

حساب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ущерб
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

detrimento
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ক্ষতি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

détriment
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Menjejaskan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Nachteil
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

損害
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

손해
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Detriment
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

gây thiệt hại
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கேடு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अपाय
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

zarar
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

danno
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

uszczerbkiem
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

збиток
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

detrimentul
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

βάρος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

nadeel
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

förfång
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

skade
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of detriment

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DETRIMENT»

The term «detriment» is quite widely used and occupies the 35.453 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DETRIMENT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «detriment» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «detriment» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about detriment

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10 QUOTES WITH «DETRIMENT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word detriment.
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Steve Buyer
In fact, it is often times a detriment for the Government to preemptively legislate on an issue before we can either define it or grasp its impact.
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Will Champlin
I just wanted to keep consistent and keep true to America and not seem contrived. I didn't want to seem contrived at all with any song choice that might be a detriment to my journey on 'The Voice.'
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Howard Coble
It was fairly obvious to anyone who studied the situation that China was dumping bedroom furniture in the U.S. to the detriment of our American workers and manufacturers to gain market access and share.
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E. L. Doctorow
In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.
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Mildred S. Dresselhaus
Energy is one topic on which different countries can work together collaboratively. If we can all produce energy from an element that's available in abundance on our planet, that would be a good thing, but we have to learn how to produce energy in large quantities, cheaply, efficiently and without detriment to the environment.
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Laurent Fabius
There are 20 million unemployed and what does the Constitution offer us in the Europe of 25, 27 and soon to be 30: policies of unrestricted competition to the detriment of production, wages, research and innovation.
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Larry Flynt
Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.
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Frank Gaffney
Too many countries that do not play by the free trade rules of the World Trade Organization - including, notably mercantilist China and monopolist Saudi Arabia - have been allowed in, to the detriment of both the WTO and the liberal trading environment it is supposed to sponsor.
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Jim Jeffords
The budget does not adequately fund important domestic programs, promotes tax cuts to the detriment of other priorities and does little to put our nation's fiscal house in order.
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Jean-Claude Juncker
My main concern is to protect people from detriment.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DETRIMENT»

Discover the use of detriment in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to detriment and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Contracts: Examples & Explanations
DETRIMENT,. BENEFIT,. AND. BARGAINED-FOR. EXCHANGE. The broad statement was made above that a promise must be paid for to be contractuallybinding.Asyouwillsoonsee,''payment''forthepromiseismuch more complicated than you ...
Brian A. Blum, 2007
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Concise European Trademark and Design Law
The broad protection of reputed marks consists of the possibility to oppose taking unfair advantage of or causing detriment to the distinctiveness or repute of the mark. One can only oppose this type of injury once it has been established that a  ...
Charles Gielen, Verena von Bomhard, 2011
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Text, Cases and Materials on Contract Law
This is sometimes abbreviated to the idea that consideration must involve some benefit to the promisor or some detriment to the promisee. In many cases it will involve both – as where money is exchanged for goods.The seller has the benefit  ...
Richard Stone, James Devenney, 2014
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International Trade and Business Law Review
remedy there is arguably no detriment within the meaning of the Art 25. 48 According to Michael Will, detriment is a much broader concept which must be interpreted from a teleological perspective: 49 Detriment, without qualifying language, ...
Gabriel Moens, 2013
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Chitty on Contracts: General principles
18 But in a number of cases promises have been enforced in spite of the fact that there was no apparent detriment to the promisee19; and these cases support the view that benefit to the promisor is (even without detriment to the promisee) ...
Joseph Chitty, H. G. Beale, 2012
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Intellectual Property Law Core Text
However, despite the fact that Megarry J's third element specifies that for a breach to occur the unauthorised use must be of 'detriment' to the confider, there is by no means agreement on this point. Even Coco v AN Clark (Engineering) Ltd  ...
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Maudsley and Burn's Land Law
Equally, there was no doubt on the facts that she had suffered a detriment, because she had devoted her life to looking after the Greasley family without payment instead of getting a paid job. The only question in the case was whether that ...
Edward Hector Burn, John Cartwright, Ronald Harling Maudsley, 2009
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Unlocking Land Law
There maybeotherforms of detriment suffered by the claimant. In Crabb vArunDC( 1976) the claimant had sold off part of his land in the belief that he had a right of way over the defendant's land. The fact that he had notreservedhimself these ...
Judith Bray, 2014
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Principles of Equity & Trusts (Aus) 2/e
They considered that, on the facts as pleaded, the detriment arose from the fact that the plaintiff had 'subjected himself to the stress and anxiety and inconvenience which were inevitably involved in the pursuit of the proceedings'. Consequently ...
Samantha Hepburn, 2013
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The Classic of Difficulties: A Translation of the Nan Jing
A Translation of the Nan Jing Bianque. arrival is called death. And four exhalations and one arrival is called severed destiny. These are the detriments of the pulse." Arrival of the pulse goes from lower [to upper). Detriment of the pulse goes ...
Bianque, 1999

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DETRIMENT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term detriment is used in the context of the following news items.
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A Few Thoughts On Microsoft's Massive Writedown | TechCrunch
... business into a subscription run-rate, you are penny-conscious. And everything that is a detriment to that business model shakeup has to go. «TechCrunch, Jul 15»
2
Budget 2015: George Osborne slashes welfare but gives Britain a …
The system of tax on dividends will be reformed to the detriment of wealthier savers. Drivers of the most expensive cars on the roads will be hit ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
3
Puerto Rico Declaring Bankruptcy Is Giving It a Bailout
But changing the rules of the game would change the distribution of losses to the benefit of some and detriment of others. That is a bailout. «Daily Signal, Jul 15»
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Unions are really for the politicians, not members | The Australian
... a trade union officer to use improperly his or her position to gain an advantage for himself or herself or to cause detriment to the organisation. «The Australian, Jul 15»
5
Chelsea transfer gossip: Rudiger deal, Pogba hope and PSG …
And manager Laurent Blanc revealed that he will make his presence known in the transfer market, to the detriment most likely of English clubs. «Express.co.uk, Jul 15»
6
Rail head shows leadership; time to press for help - Connecticut Post
... community: As attractive as this area is, if you can't move from point A to point B with relative ease, it's a detriment to economic growth. «CT Post, Jul 15»
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Harper Shows Contempt for Workers by Passing Anti-Union law …
... measures that benefit the well-to-do to the detriment of everyone else are an abandonment of our long-held commitment to social justice. «Huffington Post Canada, Jul 15»
8
Ghanaian official blasts Gyan for being too 'money conscious' - Goal …
Arhin claims Gyan is now concentrating on his pocket to the detriment of the national team. “Asamoah Gyan has to be told plainly that the ... «Goal.com, Jul 15»
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'Free' Money Doesn't Make College More Affordable - The Patriot Post
“[W]hile one would expect student aid expansion to benefit recipients,” the pair say, “the subsidized loan expansion could [be] to their detriment, ... «Patriot Post, Jul 15»
10
China's Investment In Africa - The African Perspective - Forbes
... the powerful and deep-pocketed Chinese state, will mop-up Africa's business opportunities to the detriment of Western and indigenous firms. «Forbes, Jul 15»

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