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Detriment meaning

  1. Harm, hurt, damage.
  2. A charge made to students and barristers for incidental repairs of the rooms they occupy.
  3. The position or state of a planet when it is in the sign opposite its house, considered to weaken it.

Synonyms of Detriment

Using Detriment

  • The main meaning on this page is: Harm, hurt, damage. | A charge made to students and barristers for incidental repairs of the rooms they occupy. | The position or state of a planet when it is in the sign opposite its house, considered to weaken it.
  • Useful related words include: hurt, damage, harm, impairment.
  • In the example corpus, detriment often appears in combinations such as: detriment of, the detriment, detriment to.

Context around Detriment

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 28.2 words
  • Position in the sentence: 3 start, 4 middle, 13 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Detriment

  • In this selection, "detriment" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 28.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, physical, own and great stand out and add context to how "detriment" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include to the detriment of the and to the detriment of their. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "detriment" sits close to words such as annapolis, browsers and clears, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with detriment

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

He’s a fan, sometimes to his own detriment. (9 words)

In other words, they see actions to address climate change as a detriment to shareholder profits. (16 words)

Mars—which happens to be Aries’ ruling planet—is also transiting hypersensitive Cancer, where it’s said to be in its detriment. (22 words)

But this was to the detriment of the franchise sides that had their best players unavailable for those two months, which is a problem they have at the start of the season as well, due to the Boks being in Rugby Championship action. (43 words)

However, the CBN has said on its website that the Federal Government’s borrowing from it through the Ways and Means Advances could have adverse effects on the bank’s monetary policy to the detriment of domestic prices and exchange rates. (41 words)

A council spokesman added: "Unlicensed breeders have a negative impact on legitimate licensed breeders and go unmonitored so welfare standards are not always maintained to the detriment of the puppies and dogs and over-breeding is common place. (38 words)

Example sentences (20)

Money, relationship and career are the paragon of the American dream, the dream that so many people pursue – to the detriment of their emotional, spiritual and physical detriment.

A council spokesman added: "Unlicensed breeders have a negative impact on legitimate licensed breeders and go unmonitored so welfare standards are not always maintained to the detriment of the puppies and dogs and over-breeding is common place.

Across all three countries and four ideological groupings, young Europeans are steadfast in the opinion that the U.S. acts as the world’s policeman to the detriment of the world community.

After the war, he reached out to survivors of other camps, and he made documenting and performing their work his mission, to the detriment of his own health and family life.

Among the world’s leaders in semiconductors, artificial intelligence, electric batteries, green ships, and 5G/6G technologies, many countries would find it difficult to sever ties with South Korea to the detriment of their own economies.

Because of that, Season 3 of works hard to adapt all of the book’s main events, sometimes to the detriment of character development.

But the naysayers wanted more — and they seem likely to get it, to the detriment of the speakership broadly and McCarthy very, very specifically.

But this was to the detriment of the franchise sides that had their best players unavailable for those two months, which is a problem they have at the start of the season as well, due to the Boks being in Rugby Championship action.

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Distor lamented how smuggling renders local farm output uncompetitive, impedes the productivity of farmers and leads to higher costs of agricultural products to the detriment of consumers.

Google found this out to its detriment when its newly launched chatbot Bard gave a wrong answer to a question, causing the shares of its parent, Alphabet, to plummet by 7%.

He must also check the downtown business interests that historically set the agenda in City Hall, to the detriment of long-suffering Black neighborhoods.

Here is a perfect example of letting what appears to be a down-trending economy with higher mortgage rates as a detriment trump the technical pattern.

He’s a fan, sometimes to his own detriment.

His real enemies are those who portray him as greedily hanging on to the reins of government at the detriment of his personal health.

However, the CBN has said on its website that the Federal Government’s borrowing from it through the Ways and Means Advances could have adverse effects on the bank’s monetary policy to the detriment of domestic prices and exchange rates.

In most cases, it was fine, but there were other cases where players showed up out of shape or had redesigned their bodies, to their detriment.

In other words, they see actions to address climate change as a detriment to shareholder profits.

Insurance companies rake in huge profits to the detriment of each of us because we treat health care as a commodity or a privilege.

It's come at a great detriment to some completionists, who in the past faced the challenge of completing each game 100%, although these eight titles really put them to the test with their various completion methods.

Mars—which happens to be Aries’ ruling planet—is also transiting hypersensitive Cancer, where it’s said to be in its detriment.

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Common combinations with detriment

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "detriment" in a sentence?
An example: "Money, relationship and career are the paragon of the American dream, the dream that so many people pursue – to the detriment of their emotional, spiritual and physical detriment." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "detriment" from authentic English texts.
What does "detriment" mean?
Detriment means: Harm, hurt, damage.
What are synonyms of "detriment"?
Common synonyms of "detriment" include: hurt, damage, harm, impairment.
How many example sentences with "detriment" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "detriment", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.