- a reduction in how unpleasant, serious, etc. something isOxford Collocations DictionaryMitigation is used after these nouns:
- risk
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin mitigatio(n-), from the verb mitigare ‘alleviate’, from mitis ‘mild’.
Idioms
See mitigation in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee mitigation in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishin mitigation
- (law) with the aim of making a crime seem less serious or easier to forgive
- In mitigation, the defence lawyer said his client was seriously depressed at the time of the assault.
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