detriment
IPA: dˈɛtrʌmʌnt
noun
- Harm, hurt, damage.
- (UK, obsolete) A charge made to students and barristers for incidental repairs of the rooms they occupy.
- (astrology) The position or state of a planet when it is in the sign opposite its house, considered to weaken it.
- (heraldry, of the moon) The position or state of being eclipsed, entirely dark (sable).
verb
- (transitive, chiefly obsolete) To be detrimental to; to harm or mar.
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Examples of "detriment" in Sentences
- It's to the detriment of the project.
- The tariff was detrimental to the farmers.
- This is much to the detriment of the project.
- It will work toward the detriment of the writer.
- But the shift has been to the detriment of Montreal.
- It is highly detrimental to the community and the work.
- I think that is detrimental to the quality of the article.
- It is inherently predisposed to the detriment of that individual.
- Confrontational language is detrimental to the goal of this discussion.
- As a commodity the spectacular is developed to the detriment of the real.
- The tipping point, as will be to our serious detriment, is Israeli intervention in Iran, and that is coming soon.
- The only glaring detriment is how Johnny inexplicably delays questioning his true love about her obvious age progression.
- Just to belabor the point a bit, the word "detriment" comes from the Latin de - "away" + terere "to rub, wear," and has the connotation of impair or injure.
- "Such a diversion of assets would have the effect of mortgaging the future of the franchise to the long-term detriment of the club and its fans," Mr. Selig said in a statement.
- For starters, we can accept, without cynicism, that the poor, like you and I, are irrational economic actors who sometimes make short-term decisions to their long-term detriment.
- Beyond the immediate harm that's considerable, the West Bank's geographical division causes severe long-term detriment to the entire Palestinian fabric of life - affecting their economic, political and social welfare.
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