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US
/ˌmɪtɪˈɡeɪʃən/
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[ UK /mˌɪtɪɡˈeɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /mˌɪtɪɡˈeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- a partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances
- to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious
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the action of lessening in severity or intensity
the object being control or moderation of economic depressions
How To Use mitigation In A Sentence
- The defence barrister, David Lane, then stood up to offer some brief remarks in mitigation.
- In mitigation, conditions tend to be less conducive to batting in England than in many places overseas. Times, Sunday Times
- Handing down the legal equivalent of a rap on the knuckles, Judge Teare said the public might see his compassion as "impossibly lenient", but explained he had been swung by the moral standing of those arraigned before him, as set out by counsel of the defence in mitigation. Hugh Muir's diary
- Whether or not he testified on the issue of guilt or innocence or as to matters in extenuation or mitigation, the accused may make an unsworn statement to the court in mitigation or extenuation of the offenses of which he stands convicted, but the right to make such an unsworn statement does not permit the filing of the affidavit of the accused. EXECUTIVE ORDER 10214
- In mitigation the person representing the company which employs about 35 people, said about 95 per cent of the company's work now involves light, plastic belting, rather than leather.
- Is there any mitigation of this bleak picture? Times, Sunday Times
- This is a strategy not of flood prevention but of flood mitigation and control.
- In mitigation, the defence lawyer said his client was seriously depressed at the time of the assault.
- But those matters did not cease to be factors which could form part of mitigation. Times, Sunday Times
- Good risk management practice incorporates several possible strategies: avoidance, transference, mitigation, or acceptance.