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alleviation Definition

al·le·via·tion (ə lē′vē ās̸hən)

noun

  1. an alleviating or being alleviated
  2. 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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