humanitarian
adjective /hjuːˌmænɪˈteəriən/
/hjuːˌmænɪˈteriən/
[usually before noun]- connected with helping people who are suffering and improving the conditions that they are living in
- to provide humanitarian aid to the war zone
- humanitarian issues
- a humanitarian organization
- They are calling for the release of the hostages on humanitarian grounds.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- purely
- essentially
- (especially in journalism) describing an event or situation that causes or involves a lot of human suffering, especially one that requires aid to be provided to a large number of people
- a humanitarian crisis
- These floods are the worst humanitarian disaster the country has seen.
- The expulsion of thousands of people represents a humanitarian catastrophe of enormous proportions.
Word Originearly 19th cent.: from humanity + -arian.