English-Italian translations for merit

• meritare
  Solo questo può meritare il nostro apprezzamento. That alone merits our appreciation.
  Esse continuano a meritare un sostegno speciale da parte nostra, che permetta di superare i costi dell'insularità e di potenziare i contatti esterni. These continue to merit special support from the Union, which can overcome the costs of insularity and boost foreign contacts.
  In pratica, ciò significa che i dati disponibili non erano numericamente sufficienti per meritare di essere inclusi nel sito Web. In practice, this meant that there were too few figures available to merit their inclusion in the website.
• merito
  Le mie nomine si baseranno sul merito e su nient'altro. I will appoint on merit and nothing else.
  Una procedura che deve essere aperta, trasparente e basata sul merito. It has to be open, transparent and merit-based.
  Questo è il primo e principale merito. This is the first and major merit.
• merto
• vanto

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