Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of alleviating, The act of removing in part, lessening, mitigating, or making easier to be endured: as, the alleviation of taxes. The act of making less by representation; extenuation: as, “alleviations of faults.” South.
  • noun That which lessens, mitigates, or makes more tolerable: as, the sympathy of a friend is an alleviation of grief.
  • noun Synonyms Mitigation, palliation, relief.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of alleviating; a lightening of weight or severity; mitigation; relief.
  • noun That which mitigates, or makes more tolerable.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun the act of alleviating; relief or mitigation
  • noun the act of reducing pain or anything else unpleasant; easement

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced
  • noun the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance)

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Examples

  • Obama's stimulus plan has only exaggerated this fake recovery by funneling money into tax breaks and the short-term alleviation of state deficits, and now that the states are not getting another fix of federal aid, they will be forced to impose massive layoffs and reductions to needed social services.

    Our False Recovery: Why Wall Street Is Up and Everyone Else Is Down 2010

  • “Energy independence,” whether accurately or not, offers alleviation from a specific fear and a promise of abundance.

    Building Bridges: Scarcity vs. Abundance 2008

  • Obama's stimulus plan has only exaggerated this fake recovery by funneling money into tax breaks and the short-term alleviation of state deficits, and now that the states are not getting another fix of federal aid, they will be forced to impose massive layoffs and reductions to needed social services.

    Bob Samuels: Our False Recovery: Why Wall Street Is Up and Everyone Else Is Down 2010

  • If the Antigonish Movement ultimately asked more of consumer co-operation and credit unionism than they were able to deliver, that in no way detracts from the energy its adherents devoted to their cause, nor from the short-to-medium term alleviation of suffering, the enhancement of human dignity and the restoration of hope which they accomplished.

    Distributism: Past, Present and Future 2007

  • Not surprisingly, labour interests are focused on short-term alleviation of community problems in their own areas.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • The major alleviation is that gifts and estates, regardless of size, passing to a spouse or dependent children would to totally exempt.

    Some Thoughts on the Carter Report 1967

  • Anything which provided "short to medium-term alleviation of capacity issues in the South East" should be considered, although the funding and route would need careful consideration, a spokesman said.

    BBC News - Home 2011

  • However, meaningful long-term alleviation to hunger is rooted in the alleviation of poverty, as poverty leads to hunger.

    Global Issues News Headlines 2009

  • Compound this with many people who are legally using prescription marijuana for pain alleviation, and there’s no way this will fly.

    Smoking And Driving? Nonsense. « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008

  • Compound this with many people who are legally using prescription marijuana for pain alleviation, and there’s no way this will fly.

    2008 June 28 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008

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