alleviation
alleviation
Definition
al·le·via·tion (ə lē′vē ā′s̸hən)
noun
- an alleviating or being alleviated
- a thing that alleviates
alleviation
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- include: They include the alleviation of social hardship, reduction in access to the main methods of suicide, and specific measures for high-risk groups.
- flood: The uncertainty analysis is continued at a scale more recognizable to civil engineers by examining decision-making in relation to flood alleviation.
Adjective modifier
- temporary: If given after meals larger doses are required for temporary alleviation by neutralizing the food acids.
- effective: Indian urban poverty: where are the levers for its effective alleviation?
Modifies a noun
- paradigm: Savings and shares Raising program income from savings and shares is advocated within both the financial sustainability paradigm and poverty alleviation paradigms.
- scheme: The Boro Council will consult the Environment Agency with regards to the design of flood alleviation schemes.
- measure: To what extent will poverty alleviation measures over the next few years affect the wellbeing of Young Lives index children living in poverty?
- strategy: The government's current poverty alleviation strategies are deeply informed by this determination not to create dependence.
- program: Thus for 2001 HIPC should release $ 118 million to be used in poverty alleviation programs.
- project: Organize grants, food parcels and poverty alleviation projects to help families survive.
Noun used with modifier
- poverty: Here aid policies aimed at poverty alleviation could be an obvious answer.
- flood: The majority of people had no problems with surface water or storm drainage, flood alleviation seems to have lessened the previous problems.
- pain: Quel surprise, there was no marked reduction in pain alleviation to the group exposed to lemon.
Preposition: in
- country: No doubt, the objective must be clear, that is, poverty alleviation in the country.
Preposition: of
- poverty: Credit for alleviation of rural poverty: The Grameen bank in Bangladesh.
- suffering: The alleviation of suffering is a vital precept of Buddhism.
- hunger: A simple example is the transfer of the pleasure of the alleviation of hunger to the representation of the mother's face.
- distress: Consequently a central fund was set up for the alleviation of distress among miners who were in need of food.
- symptom: The first clinical trial of the benefits of fish oil's EPA in the alleviation of the symptoms of osteoarthritis was reported in 1989.
- pain: The glucosamine sulfate also produced a greater alleviation of pain.
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