1) Abatement 2) Extenuation 3) Letup 4) Relief
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1) Decrease 2) Diminution 3) Easing 4) Extenuation 5) French word used in English 6) Improvement 7) Legal terminology 8) Lessening 9) Palliation 10) Reduction 11) Step-down
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[law] Mitigation in law is the principle that a party who has suffered loss (from a tort or breach of contract) has to take reasonable action to minimize the amount of the loss suffered. As stated by the Canadian Federal Court of Appeal in Redpath Industries Ltd. v. Cisco (The), `It is well established that a party who suffers damages as a ...
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Reduction of penalty or punishment.
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http://jec.unm.edu/manuals-resources/glossary-of-legal-terms
• (n.) The act of mitigating, or the state of being mitigated; abatement or diminution of anything painful, harsh, severe, afflictive, or calamitous; as, the mitigation of pain, grief, rigor, severity, punishment, or penalty.
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Arguments put forward by the defendant after a guilty plea, or after being judged guilty, which promote extenuating circumstances or other favourable conditions in an attempt to minimise the penalty imposed.
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http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20474
Measures which can be taken to ameliorate the effects of development such that they are environmentally acceptable, particularly in the case of larger scale projects which are potentially intrusive such as mineral, landfill or infrastructure development. Mitigation may take the form of visual measures, such as bunding or planting, noise attenuation...
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A claimant has a duty to limit his loss or injury where reasonably possible. Thus an employee who is wrongfully dismissed must seek alternative employment and, if he finds it, the earnings from his new employment will be offset against his damages. But he is not obliged to accept an offer of employment that is unsuited to his skills or experience.
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Legal principle that the Plaintiff should take reasonable steps to limit the loss suffered as a result of the Defendants wrong doing.
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http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20921
Steps taken to avoid or minimise negative environmental impacts. Mitigation can include: avoiding the impact by not taking a certain action; minimising impacts by limiting the degree or magnitude of the action; rectifying the impact by repairing or restoring the affected environment; reducing the impact by protective steps required with the action;...
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Action taken as part of risk management to reduce the likelihood and/or impact of a risk.
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http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/21612
The act of alleviating or making less severe. Generally refers to efforts to alleviate the impacts of hydropower development to the Columbia Basins salmon and steelhead runs.
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http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/21804
Measures taken to reduce adverse impacts on the environment.
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a speech made in court when a defendant has pleaded or been found guilty - aims to persuade the court that the guilty person ought to have a more lenient sentence because of personal, family or other reasons
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Mit`i·ga'tion noun [ Middle English
mitigacioun , French
mitigation , from Latin
mitigatio .] The act of mitigating, or the state of being mitigated; abatement or diminution of anything painful, harsh, severe, afflictive, or calamitous; as, the
mitigation of pain, grief, rig...
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(L: mitis mild; mitigare) to make milder or less intense or severe; to moderate.
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http://www.seafriends.org.nz/books/glossary.htm
mitigation 1. To act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious. 2. A partial excuse to mitigate censure. 3. An attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances. 4. Steps taken to avoid or minimize negative environmental impacts. Mitigation can include: avoiding the impact by not ...
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Measures taken to reduce adverse impacts on the environment.
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Techniques or requirements (e.g., conditions of development approval) aimed at reducing or neutralising identified negative environmental, economic, or social effects of a proposed activity, policy, or development.
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https://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20855
Reasons submitted on behalf of a guilty party in order to excuse or partly excuse the offence committed in an attempt to minimise the sentence
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https://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20911
term usually used to refer to various changes or improvements made in a home; for instance, to reduce the average level of radon.
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Actions taken to avoid, minimize, rectify, or compensate for any adverse environmental impact.
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https://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/22831
Measures to reduce the amount and speed of future climate change by reducing emissions of heat-trapping gases or removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
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https://www.globalchange.gov/climate-change/glossary
[Literary terms] the action of lessening in severity or intensity
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the action of lessening in severity or intensity
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