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detriment | American Dictionary

detriment
noun[ U ]
us/ˈde·trə·mənt/
harm or damage:
She was very involved with sports at college, to the detriment of her studies.

detrimental

adjectiveus/ˌde·trəˈmen·təl/
chemicals that have a detrimental effect on the environment

Examples of detriment

detriment
Ultimately, the public health concern was taken into account without requiring any redistribution to the detriment of industrial use.
Much medical education still focuses predominantly on drug treatment, and commercial interests continue to fuel this to the detriment of non-drug treatments.
The two approaches have been on increasingly divergent paths for several decades, to their mutual detriment and despite overlapping areas of inquiry.
Regrettably, some anthropologists have begun to silence their own voices, ostensibly to create spaces for indigenous voices, but ultimately to everyone's detriment.
Alternatively, the benefit to others justifies the (lesser) detriment suffered by the individual.
The industry was composed of small, highly flexible units - to its advantage and detriment.
Indeed, she charges that much feminist representation has privileged gender to the detriment of race and class.
The result was an emphasis on technical issues, perhaps in some cases to the detriment of the development of the music itself.
Yet concentrating on appearance rather than substance is to the detriment of architectural debate.
Responsibility for provision of care and, in particular, funding has dominated debate to the detriment of considering explicit health and social aspects of care.
To the learners' detriment, this practice still seems to be based on translation, teacher dominance and learner dependence.
There is a very clear cut detriment in margins until 2001.
Subject overload caused the trainees to prioritise to the detriment or benefit of musikdidaktik.
Of course this still might be to the detriment of women.
The prevailing attitude that all experimental data must be statistically analyzed to be of any value is also a detriment to integrated research.
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