mitigating
Our aim is the mitigation of risk.
The best disaster mitigation is still a good warning system and a ban on building homes in risky areas.
We must review current and proposed systems in order to determine potential risks and mitigation strategies.
Design work on mitigation measures to slow the river's flow should already be under way.
Evidence may be offered in mitigation of the punishment.
She has behaved appallingly and no amount of mitigation (unhappy life, underachiever) changes that.

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anti-drug
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avoid
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guard against something
hamper
hang
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preclusion
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prejudice
prevent
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scuttle
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Not punishing & reducing punishment

mitigation | Business English

mitigation
noun[ U ]
 formaluk /ˌmɪtɪˈɡeɪʃən/us
a reduction in how harmful, unpleasant, or bad something is:
mitigation of sthThe planning process should have addressed mitigation of damage to the environment.
a mitigation plan/measure/projectFor every possible problem, there must be a mitigation measure in the plan.
mitigation funds/grants/moneyThe victims received federal aid in the form of disaster mitigation funds.
mitigation costs/fees
 in mitigation
LAW
in order to try to make a crime seem less serious:
The defence lawyer also said in mitigation that her client didn't personally profit from the collapse of the finance company.

Examples of mitigation

mitigation
Only in the case of carbon monoxide does this conclusion not seem to hold, possibly because mitigation measures are much more limited.
Costs and benefits are crucial in motivating mitigation efforts.
The problem is extremely complex and its mitigation will require extensive preventative measures such as sewage processing plants and natural pesticide use, among others.
We now calculate the marginal cost of mitigation by calculating the cost per ton of the additional carbon removed.
However, the marginal cost of reducing additional carbon through these mitigation activities is surprisingly high.
Leather exports are expected to decline so one can expect a 7 per cent lower pollution load generated by leather tanning without mitigation measures.
Then, the permit share of developing countries with low emissions would be determined such that their revenues from selling permits equals their mitigation cost.
The effect of creating a mitigation directorate was to move the agency away from national security functions toward natural hazards.
Since the technology used and recommended is indigenous, there is no capital cost related foreign exchange liability from the mitigation.
Although both mitigation and adaptation remain serious topics for debate, this paper suggests equity should be added to the climate negotiation agenda as well.
In our data, some of the most obvious ways in which these goals were achieved were strategies of mitigation.
Given government fiscal constraints, it is important to demonstrate that the mitigation costs for the industrialist are modest.
These mitigation costs are much lower than for cloth production, since clean production technology is locally available.
It would have been useful to also assess the total production-related pollution and mitigation cost.
However, we do not find support for the proposition that the costs of mitigation are very high.
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