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# detriment

«detriment» in Mova's school dictionary: **Harm or damage: «to the detriment of your health» means…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (detriment — uncountable, formal)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (formal) Harm or damage: «to the detriment of your health» means harming your health. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/detriment/#m1)

2) (formal) Something that causes harm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/detriment/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

A formal exam word. It appears in phrases: «to the detriment of», «without detriment to», «to someone's detriment». It tells the reader that something causes harm or a loss. In health lessons: too much screen time may be to the detriment of sleep.

### examples

- He played games all night, to the detriment of his homework. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/detriment/#x1)
- Eating only sweets is to the detriment of your teeth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/detriment/#x2)
- The new road was built to the detriment of the woodland. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/detriment/#x3)
- You can enjoy sport without detriment to your studies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/detriment/#x4)
- Shouting at the team worked to the coach's detriment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/detriment/#x5)
- Pollution is a detriment to the health of rivers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/detriment/#x6)

### note

Formal and uncountable; mostly used in the fixed phrases above. Adjective: «detrimental» (harmful). In speech say «harm», «damage».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «detriment» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/detriment/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.