Meaning

2 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The act of alleviating; relief or mitigation.

  2. (countable, uncountable)The act of reducing pain or anything else unpleasant; easement

    the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance)

Examples

3 sentences
  1. Agriculture has a great influence on poverty alleviation.

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  2. The alleviation of poverty is an issue which confronts governments around the world.

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  3. Through this, Bangladesh has achieved success in poverty alleviation.

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Translations

6 languages
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Forms

plural: alleviations
Singularalleviation
Pluralalleviations

regular

Synonyms

12 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words
Relatedalleviate

See also

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