English-Portuguese translations for merit

• mérito
  Tentarei julgá-lo pelos seus méritos e deméritos. I shall try to judge it on its merits and demerits.
  Nomearei com base no mérito e em nada mais. I will appoint on merit and nothing else.
  Este relatório tem vários méritos. This report has various merits.
• merecer
• merecimento
  Não é por não acharmos que algumas das alterações têm merecimento. That is not because we do not think some of the amendments have merit.

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