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US
/ˈmɛɹət/
]
[ UK /mˈɛɹɪt/ ]
[ UK /mˈɛɹɪt/ ]
VERB
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be worthy or deserving
You deserve a promotion after all the hard work you have done
NOUN
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the quality of being deserving (e.g., deserving assistance)
there were many children whose deservingness he recognized and rewarded -
any admirable quality or attribute
work of great merit
How To Use merit In A Sentence
- There has to be a standard, a level where the candidacy is based on merit rather than on luck.
- There is a great deal of controversy over the merits of bleached and unbleached flour.
- On a long drive back and forth from Clackamas Lake a body of water, which at best, merits the term pond I gave it another listen. I'm getting back, into getting back into listening to some Silver Jews
- Sed vt bonis et cordatis omnibus, etiam extraneis, satisfaciam qui maledicentiam istam Germanicam lecturi vel audituri sunt, aut olim audierint, ne et hi nos meritò calumniam tantam sustinere credant: Tum etiam vt alios qui istis virulentis rhythmis A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas
- You must judge each film on its own merits, without any preconceived notions about what it's like.
- Then, the phrase had struck Vincent as doting and naive, but sometime during his stay in Toulio, as his grasp of the Chinese language deepened, and as he learned—or was forced to learn—from his mistakes, he had felt the title gain merit and accuracy. Heaven Lake
- However, the same writer made a poem on the tricks of countryfolk, which is by no means devoid of merit. The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
- The merit of all things lies in their difficulty. Alexandre Dumas
- We believe he, either, is turning his Nelson's eye to the scientific reports, or, is plain oblivious of Peter Bergen's cogent and coherent articulation of the demerits of EITs as image destroyers for the US. Cheney wrong on interrogation inquiry facts, Obama official says
- For shame, Barnet! what ninnis, what hartless raskles, you must beleave them to be, — in the fust plase, to fancy that you are a politticle genus; in the secknd, to let your politix interfear with their notiums about littery merits! The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush