Usually means: Worthy of reward or praise.
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  1. deserving: Merriam-Webster
  2. deserving: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. deserving: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. deserving: Collins English Dictionary
  5. deserving: Vocabulary.com
  6. Deserving, deserving: Wordnik
  7. deserving: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. deserving: Wiktionary
  9. deserving: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. deserving: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. deserving: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Deserving, deserving: Dictionary.com
  13. deserving: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Deserving: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Deserving: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. deserving: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. deserving: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. deserving: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. deserving: FreeDictionary.org
  20. deserving: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. deserving: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. deserving: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. deserving: Legal dictionary

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  1. deserving: Encyclopedia

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  1. deserving: Idioms

(Note: See deserve as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  worthy of reward or praise; meritorious
adjective:  meriting, worthy (reward, punishment etc.)
noun:  desert, merit

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