Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Mitigating; lenitive; soothing; alleviating.

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

  • adjective Tending to mitigate; mitigating; lenitive.

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

  • adjective Tending to mitigate.
  • noun Something that mitigates; a lenitive.

Etymologies

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Latin mitigans, p.pr. of mitigare. See mitigate.

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Examples

  • Another mitigant is the stronger credit profile of non-retail tenants such as The Coca-Cola Company IDR of 'A+' with a Stable Outlook, Caterpillar Inc.

    unknown title 2011

  • The firm also said 87% of the collateral that supports Jefferies's repurchase agreements, or repo, transactions is eligible for funding through a central clearing party, which it says is "an important mitigant against liquidity risk."

    Fitch Finds Jefferies Has 'Sufficient Liquidity' Brett Philbin 2011

  • Increased contributions to the DNC are likely to be viewed as a mitigant to that risk.

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Who Do You Know Who’s Been Saying This About Chrysler? 2009

  • A mitigant to these changes and the potential reduction in revenues is the provision included in that legislation permitting the city to reduce the base AV of the property in the allocation area if the legislative changes resulted in insufficient AV to generate enough tax increment revenues to pay tax incremented supported obligations.

    unknown title 2011

  • Jefferies has "stable leverage," and 87 percent of the collateral supporting its repurchase transactions is eligible for funding through a central clearinghouse, an "important mitigant against liquidity risk," Fitch wrote.

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2011

  • Bankruptcy Courts, and/or the relevant transaction documents are governed by U.S. law, it remains uncertain whether flip clauses would be enforceable as a mitigant to counterparty default risk.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

  • Bankruptcy Courts, and/or the relevant transaction documents are governed by U.S. law, it remains uncertain whether flip clauses would be enforceable as a mitigant to counterparty default risk.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

  • While SFO has an above-average fixed cost structure given its debt levels ($233 per enplaned passenger) coupled with elevated carrier concentration with United, the airport's demand profile serves as a key risk mitigant due to the high level of origination and destination (O&D) enplanements, which represents 77% of total volume.

    Business Wire Travel News 2010

  • While SFO has an above average fixed cost structure given its debt levels ($240 per enplaned passenger) coupled with elevated carrier concentration with United, the airport's demand profile serves as a key risk mitigant due to the high level of origination & destination (O&D) enplanements, which represents 77% of total volume.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

  • One [mitigant] is that at the end of December last year we purchased $370 million of agency hybrid [ARMs], the majority of which are Jennie Mae.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2009

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