English-Lithuanian translations for merit

• nuopelnas
  Didelis jo nuopelnas - tai, kad jis šį klausimą nagrinėja atsižvelgdamas į ūkininkus. Its great merit is that it examines the question from the perspective of farmers.
  Tačiau jos vienintelis nuopelnas yra tas, kad tai pirmas žingsnis imigraciją mažinančios politikos link. However it does have the sole merit of representing the first step towards a less immigrationist policy.
  Antra, didžiulis mūsų darbo nuopelnas yra tai, kad pagerės tiek ryšių specialistų, tiek jų ir FRONTEX bendradarbiavimas. Secondly, a great merit of our work is that cooperation will improve, both among communications officials and between them and Frontex.

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