impairment

impairment

English

Alternative forms

• empairment (rare)

Etymology

impair +‎ -ment

Noun

impairment (countable and uncountable, plural impairments)

1. The result of being impaired
2. A deterioration or weakening
3. A disability or handicap

   visual impairment

4. an inefficient part or factor.
5. (accounting) A downward revaluation, a write-down.

Translations

result of being impaired

Dutch: handicap (nl) m Finnish: häiriö (fi), vika (fi), vamma (fi) French: handicap (fr) m German: Verschlechterung (de) f, Schwächung (de) f, Behinderung (de) f, Beeinträchtigung (de) f, Minderung (de) f, Verminderung f, Schädigung (de) f, Störung (de) f, Abschwächung (de) f, Schmälerung f, Einschränkung (de) f, Wertminderung (de) f Hungarian: romlás (hu), megromlás, leromlás, gyengülés, károsodás (hu)

Italian: indebolimento (it) Macedonian: нарушување (narušuvanje), оштетување (oštetuvanje), намалување (namaluvanje) Norwegian: Bokmål: svekkelse m Serbo-Croatian: oštećenje (sh), hendikep (sh), onesposobljenost

accounting

Danish: nedskrivning c Finnish: arvonalentuminen, arvonalennus

Swedish: nedskrivning (sv) c