English-Danish translations for relief

• lettelse
  Vi må derfor rette fokus mod lettelser i forhold til arbejde. The focus must therefore be on relief in relation to work.
  Et kampagnefrit år: Sikke en lettelse det bliver.A campaign-free year: what a relief that will be. Thank you.
  En sådan lettelse skal have et betydeligt omfang og skal iværksættes hurtigt. Relief of this sort must be on a substantial scale and be implemented rapidly.
• relief
  Dette bliver sat i skarpt relief i denne forhandling om romaerne. This is brought into sharp relief in this debate on the Roma.
  Human Rights Watch og Islamic Relief har fortalt mig, at den daglige pause på tre timer simpelthen slet, slet ikke rækker til at komme ind for at uddele nødhjælp. Human Rights Watch and Islamic Relief have told me that the three-hour daily pause is simply woefully inadequate to get in and to distribute aid.

Definition of relief

• The removal of stress or discomfort
• The feeling associated with the removal of stress or discomfort
• Release from a post or duty, as when replaced by another
• Aid or assistance offered in time of need
• A lowering of a tax through special provisions; tax relief
• A type of sculpture or other artwork in which shapes or figures protrude from a flat background
• The difference of elevations on a surface
• The supposed projection of a charge from the surface of a field, indicated by shading on the sinister and lower sides
• Characterized by surface inequalities

Examples

• I sighed with relief when I found out that my daughter hadnt got lost, but was waiting for me at home
• Officer Schmidt can finally go home because his relief has arrived
• the relief on that part of the Earths surface

Related words

• bas-relief
• half-relief
• mid-relief
• relief valve
• relief printing
• relief teacher
• relief agency
• relief map
• relief pitcher