Usually means: Value based on skill, achievement.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. merit: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. merit: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. merit: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. merit: Collins English Dictionary
  5. merit: Vocabulary.com
  6. Merit, merit: Wordnik
  7. merit: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. merit: Wiktionary
  9. merit: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. merit: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. merit: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. merit: Dictionary.com
  13. merit (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. merit: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Merit (Buddhism), Merit (Catholicism), Merit (Christianity), Merit (band), Merit (cigarette), Merit (indie rock band), Merit (law), Merit: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Merit: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. merit: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. merit: Rhymezone
  19. merit: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. merit: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. merit: Free Dictionary
  22. merit: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. merit: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. merit: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. merit-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. merit: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. merit: Legal dictionary
  4. Glossary of Labor & Legal Terminology (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. merit: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MERIT: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. merit: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Merit: Catholic Encyclopedia
  2. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Merit: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See merited as well.)

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noun:  (countable) A claim to commendation or a reward.
noun:  (countable) A mark or token of approbation or to recognize excellence.
noun:  (countable, uncountable) Something deserving or worthy of positive recognition or reward.
noun:  (uncountable, Buddhism, Jainism) The sum of all the good deeds that a person does which determines the quality of the person's next state of existence and contributes to the person's growth towards enlightenment.
noun:  (uncountable, law) Usually in the plural form the merits: the substantive rightness or wrongness of a legal argument, a lawsuit, etc., as opposed to technical matters such as the admissibility of evidence or points of legal procedure; (by extension) the overall good or bad quality, or rightness or wrongness, of some other thing.
noun:  (countable, obsolete) The quality or state of deserving retribution, whether reward or punishment.
verb:  (transitive) To deserve, to earn.
verb:  (intransitive) To be deserving or worthy.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete, rare) To reward.

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