English-Czech translations for merit

• zásluha
  Totéž bude platit i v případě EEAS, ale jmenování musí vycházet také ze zásluhy, proto se zásluha a začleňování hlediska rovnosti žen a mužů musí uplatňovat společně. This will also apply in the EEAS, but appointments also have to be on merit, so merit and gender mainstreaming have to go together.
  Buďme upřímní: někdy když se objeví nějaký problém, někteří národní politici říkají, že je to chyba Bruselu, a když jsou úspěšní, říkají, že je to jejich zásluha. Let us be frank about it: sometimes some national politicians, when there is a problem, say it is the fault of Brussels and when they have success, say it is their merit.
  Ačkoli tato zpráva není zprávou legislativní, její zásluha spočívá v tom, že zapojuje občany do všeobecně známé potřeby dobudovat jednotný trh. Although it is non-legislative, this report has the merit of including citizens in the well-known necessity of completing the Single Market.

Definition of merit

• A claim#Noun|claim to commendation or a reward#Noun|reward
• A mark#Noun|mark or token of approbation or to recognize excellence
• Something deserving or worthy#Adjective|worthy of positive#Adjective|positive recognition or reward
• The sum#Noun|sum of all the good#Adjective|good deed#Noun|deeds that a person does which determines the quality of the person's next state#Noun|state of existence and contributes to the person's growth towards enlightenment
• ''Usually in the plural form''''the merits''': the substantive#Adjective|substantive rightness or wrongness of a legal argument, a lawsuit, etc., as opposed to technical matter#Noun|matters such as the admissibility of evidence#Noun|evidence or point#Noun|points of legal procedure; the overall good#Adjective|good or bad#Adjective|bad quality, or rightness or wrongness, of some other thing
• The quality or state of deserving retribution, whether reward or punishment
• To deserve, to earn
• To be deserving#Adjective|deserving or worthy#Adjective|worthy
• To reward#Verb|reward

Examples

• For her good performance in the examination, her teacher gave her ten merits
• His reward for his merit was a check for $50
• to acquire or make merit
• Even though the plaintiff was ordered by the judge to pay some costs for not having followed the correct procedure, she won the case on the merits
• Her performance merited wild applause
• They were punished as they merited

Related words

• promerit