demerit

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Schooldemeritde‧mer‧it /diːˈmerɪt/ noun [countable] 1 formalGOOD POINT OR CHARACTERISTIC a bad quality or feature of somethingdemerit of The merits and demerits (=the good and bad qualities) of this argument have been explored.2 American EnglishSES a mark showing that a student has behaved badly at school → meritExamples from the Corpusdemerit• With the particular merits and demerits of these proposals I am not here directly concerned.• And Lord Hodson was concerned primarily with the substantive merits and demerits of the Bill, not with its legal technicalities.• You get demerits if you miss a meeting or come late to dinner without calling beforehand.• We sort of kept this demerit scoreboard for the last eight years, until we ran out of space.

单词	demerit
释义	demerit From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Schooldemeritde‧mer‧it /diːˈmerɪt/ noun [countable] 1 formalGOOD POINT OR CHARACTERISTIC a bad quality or feature of somethingdemerit of The merits and demerits (=the good and bad qualities) of this argument have been explored.2 American EnglishSES a mark showing that a student has behaved badly at school → meritExamples from the Corpusdemerit• With the particular merits and demerits of these proposals I am not here directly concerned.• And Lord Hodson was concerned primarily with the substantive merits and demerits of the Bill, not with its legal technicalities.• You get demerits if you miss a meeting or come late to dinner without calling beforehand.• We sort of kept this demerit scoreboard for the last eight years, until we ran out of space.
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