merit

công lao, thành tích, điểm thưởng

1. A claim to commendation or a reward.Điều khiến một người hoặc việc xứng đáng được khen ngợi hay khen thưởng.
2. A mark or token of approbation or to recognize excellence.Điểm hoặc dấu hiệu khen ngợi, dùng để ghi nhận thành tích xuất sắc.
3. Something deserving or worthy of positive recognition or reward.
4. 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.
5. 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.

• For her good performance in the examination, her teacher gave her ten merits.
• His reward for his merit was a check for $50.