concerned with reducing suffering and improving the conditions that people live 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. The expulsion of thousands of people represents a humanitarian catastrophe of enormous proportions.
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NAmE//hyuˌmænəˈtɛriəˌnɪzəm//
noun [uncountable]See humanitarian in the Oxford Advanced Learner's DictionaryCheck pronunciation: humanitarian