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alleviation

noun as in relief

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Markets have certainly made no secret of their preference for Marcos’ main rival, incumbent vice president Leni Robredo—a economics graduate and lawyer with experience in poverty alleviation, rural development, and housing.

From Time

In China’s impoverished central province of Ningxia, for example, subsidized power supplies designated for locals to process Goji berries as part of poverty alleviation efforts have been covertly syphoned off for sitcoin mining, he says.

From Time

There have been improvements, not least the alleviation of the smog notorious in the 1960s and ’70s.

In fact, we found one word associated with obligation alleviation for every five or six words associated with the imposition of obligations.

From Fortune

In some of China’s regions, poverty alleviation schemes have reportedly led to forced labor.

From Fortune

Mayberg has reported patients experiencing a palpable alleviation of their symptoms right in the operating room.

Nevertheless, there is a certain frame of mind to which a cemetery is, if not an antidote, at least an alleviation.

I must tell you that in my sickness I had a huge alleviation and began a new story.

These were a happy alleviation to us, and at our noon halting-place we enjoyed the rare luxury of a full meal.

But the defeat and death of Mansfeld brought no alleviation.

He provided the medicines, and every other means of alleviation.

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On this page you'll find 30 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to alleviation, such as: mitigation, abatement, assuagement, comfort, ease, and easement.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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