abandonment
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5.9
- noun
- /əˈbændənmənt/
- Formal
:
abandono
- She expressed her regret over the abandonment of her childhood dreams, realizing she had let them slip away.
Examples
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The abandonment of the Socialist economic program in France in 1983 is an appropriate example.
Academic text (1994) -
A severe 30-year drought starting around A.D. 1050 led to upheaval and the rapid, violent abandonment of the Sicn capital.
Academic text (2007) -
Most authors agree that poverty was the single most important reason for child abandonment in the past.
Academic text (1993) -
The reason it could be called abandonment is that you surrendered work without certain terms.
Blog text (34) -
The abandonment of the Columbia South Shore plan was due to a legal challenge by environmentalists.
Academic text (1994) -
During the 1980s, both states experienced drastic rises in lake levels, resulting in property damage and abandonment.
Academic text (1991) -
Nevertheless, U.S. normalization with mainland China did not entail the abandonment of Taiwan.
Academic text (1999) -
The principal Tang economic innovation had been the abandonment of government title of large landholdings in favor of privatized holdings (Golas 1980, 299).
Academic text (2017) -
The abandonment of the land left it overgrown and neglected, with no one to care for it.
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After years of neglect, the abandonment of the house became evident as nature reclaimed the property.
Synonyms
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2.6
Getting rid of things you do not want
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6.2
Leaving someone, a place, or a duty when you should stay to help
18
6.7
To get rid of something by throwing it away or selling it
2
8.2
An official act of giving up a right, claim, or thing you own
1
8.2
The act of giving up a right, position, or responsibility
1
8.2
A building or place left empty and not taken care of
1
7.7
Giving up a right, job, or thing you own
1
8.9
To give up a right, title, or claim in a formal way
Giving up something you could have, like a right or pleasure
The act of giving up a right or claim in public
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Abandonment comes from Old French parts a- and bandon, where bandon means 'control' or 'power'. So to abandon property was to 'give up control' of it, which matches the legal meaning.