abandonment

Meaning

1. (countable, uncountable) The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment.
2. (countable, uncountable) The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband or child; desertion.
3. (countable, uncountable) An abandoned building or structure.
4. (countable, uncountable) The relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege; relinquishment of right to secure a patent by an inventor; relinquishment of copyright by an author.
5. (countable, uncountable) 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.
6. (countable, uncountable) The cessation of service on a particular segment of the lines of a common carrier, as granted by a government agency.
7. (countable, uncountable) A refusal to receive freight so damaged in transit as to be worthless and render carrier liable for its value.
8. (countable, uncountable) The self-surrender to an outside influence.
9. (countable, uncountable) Abandon; careless freedom or ease; surrender to one's emotions.

Synonyms

desertion

forsaking

relinquishment

renunciation

giving up

leaving

surrender

defection

desperation

despair

abdication

abolition

deserting

abandon

abrogation

rejection

waiver

discard

letting go

dereliction

abolishment

repudiation

assignment

disownment

disuse

donation

emission

extradition

forfeit

forfeiture

forgoing

forswearing

funkiness

give up

giving

grant

handing over

handover

leave

leaving behind

livery

make over

neglect

nonacceptance

obsolescence

obsoleteness

quitting

refuse

relinquishing

renounce

Translations

abandon

abandono

abbandono

abandonnement

abandono

Aufgabe

εγκατάλειψη

abandó

désertion

rinuncia

verlating

afstand

cessie

abandonament

cessione

Pronounced as (IPA)

/əˈbæn.dn̩.mn̩t/

Etymology

From French abandonnement, from abandonner (“to abandon, relinquish”). abandonner was originally equivalent to mettre à bandon (“to leave to the jurisdiction, i.e. of another”), bandon being from Medieval Latin bandum, bannum (“order, decree, ban”). Equivalent to abandon + -ment. (See also English banns.)