Usually means: Harm or damage to something.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word detriment:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. detriment: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. detriment, detriment: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. detriment: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. detriment: Collins English Dictionary
  5. detriment: Vocabulary.com
  6. Detriment, detriment: Wordnik
  7. detriment: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. detriment: Wiktionary
  9. detriment: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. detriment: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. detriment: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. detriment: Dictionary.com
  13. detriment: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. detriment: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Detriment (astrology), Detriment (law), Detriment: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Detriment: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. detriment: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. detriment: Rhymezone
  19. detriment: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. detriment: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. detriment: Free Dictionary
  22. detriment: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. detriment: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. Detriment (astrology), detriment: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

(Note: See detriments as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Harm, hurt, damage.
noun:  (UK, obsolete) A charge made to students and barristers for incidental repairs of the rooms they occupy.
noun:  (astrology) The position or state of a planet when it is in the sign opposite its house, considered to weaken it.
noun:  (heraldry, of the moon) The position or state of being eclipsed, entirely dark (sable).
verb:  (transitive, chiefly obsolete) To be detrimental to; to harm or mar.

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