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单词 damage limitation
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damage limitation
noun[U]
uk
/ˈdæm.ɪdʒ lɪm.ɪˌteɪ.ʃən/us
/ˈdæm.ɪdʒ lɪm.ɪˌteɪ.ʃən/
(alsodamage control)
theprocessoflimitingthedamagingeffectsof anactionormistake, or theattemptinwarto usecarefulplanningtoavoidunnecessarydeath:
控制损失；（战争中的）减少伤亡
Thegovernmentisinvolvedin a damage-limitationexercisetominimizetheeffectsof thescandal.政府已经出面与其他各方一起行动，以尽量降低这桩丑闻所造成的影响。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Limiting and restricting
  • anti-libertarian
  • boundary
  • boxsomeone/somethingin
  • chain
  • chainsomeonetosomething
  • cramp
  • crowd
  • curb
  • curtail
  • curtailment
  • debilitating
  • hamstring
  • limit
  • limitation
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  • localize
  • non-exempt
  • straitjacket
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(Definition ofdamage limitationfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

damage limitation| Business English

damage limitation
noun[U]
uk
us
(alsodamage control)
theprocessoflimitingtheharmfuleffectsof anactionor amistake:
Thecompanywonpraiseforitsquickeffortsatdamagecontrol,includinganimmediateapology.
Managementlaunchedadamagelimitationexerciseafterdetailsoftalkswithunionswereleakedto thepress.
(Definition ofdamage limitationfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdamage limitation

damage limitation
From the first, it has been my view that we have been involved in a greatdamagelimitationexercise.
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Public ownership meant that management was limited todamagelimitationand political pressure.
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Flood risk assessment and management should be the basis of long-term plans for engineering works, information systems and other means of flooddamagelimitation.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
As an educational policy,damagelimitationis an admission of defeat: we can't replace dialect variation.
From theCambridge English Corpus
There thus does not need to be a huge contrast between the policy ofdamagelimitationand the policy of drug prevention.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
Because tourism can also have a harmful impact on the environment, there needs to be a strategy fordamagelimitation.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
The real clue to his speech was when he said that he commends the exercise indamagelimitation.
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Does he agree that the emphasis in all anti-drug education should be not merelydamagelimitationbut proactive resistance to the taking of drugs?
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That was shown even within his argument, which was merely adamagelimitationoperation.
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The only feasible objective of regional co-ordination seemed to bedamagelimitation.
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What lawyers who are properly instructed should aim at is adamagelimitationexercise.
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These are basically an essentialdamagelimitationexercise, but what do we do next?
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If it is research work ondamagelimitation, in giving government options or formulating policy, clearly it is an indefinite science.
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They must pursue the twin goals of transparency and accountability rather than the regressive goal ofdamagelimitation.
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However, regrettably,damagelimitationis all that has been possible.
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