abandonment
Noun
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abandonment (plural abandonments)
- The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment.
- Quotations
- The abandonment of the independence of Europe. - Burke.
- Quotations
- (Maritime Law): The relinquishment by the insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril insured against.
- (Common Law): The relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege, as to mill site, etc.
- (Common Law): The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband, or child; desertion.
- Example
- "Well, since he left her, she"s suing him for divorce on grounds of abandonment."
- Example
- the cessation of service on a particular segment of the lines of a common carrier by railroad.
- refusal to receive freight so damaged in transit as to be worthless and render carrier liable for its value.
- (Rare): Careless freedom or ease; abandon. - Thomas Carlyle
11 letters in word "abandonment": A A B D E M N N N O T.
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