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mitigation
noun
Reveal meaning and examples
The reduction of the severity, extent, or harmful effect of something.
The planning report included measures for the mitigation of construction noise.
A drastic change to a fictional parcel service replaces daily collection with a single collection each month, leaving customers with a sharply reduced service. An exacerbation of the existing backlog follows when the depot also stops sorting parcels for an entire week. The manager's mitigation plan aims to reduce the effects by arranging temporary storage and restoring part of the collection schedule.