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📖 Определения и значения для слова detriment

📒 the act of causing harm or damage; something that causes harm or damage

  • Wood accounts for 90% of energy production in some countries, with consequent environmental detriment.
  • Too many tests are a detriment to good education.

📒 resulting in harm or damage to somebody/something

  • He was engrossed in his job to the detriment of his health.

📒 not resulting in harm or damage to somebody/something

  • This tax cannot be introduced without detriment to people’s living standards.
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