Abandonments

Word ABANDONMENTS
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What do we mean by abandonments?

The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment.

The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband or child; desertion.

An abandoned building or structure.

The relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege; relinquishment of right to secure a patent by an inventor; relinquishment of copyright by an author.

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.

The cessation of service on a particular segment of the lines of a common carrier, as granted by a government agency.

A refusal to receive freight so damaged in transit as to be worthless and render carrier liable for its value.

The self-surrender to an outside influence.

Abandon; careless freedom or ease; surrender to one's emotions.

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The word "abandonments" in example sentences

Officials have called the abandonments a misuse of a new law that was mainly intended to prevent so-called Dumpster babies - the abandonment of newborns by young, terrified mothers - but instead has been used to hand off out-of-control teenagers or, in the case of the father of 10, to escape financial and personal despair. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The home building gross margin, when including write-downs and abandonments, fell to 7.1% from 11.3% in the prior year. ❋ Mia Lamar (2011)

Perhaps because those who suffer from the holiday blues are seeing their world through the eyes of the past, focusing on the disappointments, the losses, the rejections, the abandonments of the past and bringing them into the present, and feeling their devastating emotional impact as if they happened yesterday. ❋ M.D. Walter E. Jacobson (2011)

Institutional abandonments such as hospitals and asylums are particularly vulnerable to this cheap sort of exploitation. ❋ Ian Ference (2011)

And so you've got these sort of repeated abandonments - first with young children whose parents may die of AIDS. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The Japanese seem to have it all where large-scale abandonments are concerned. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I have left many people in my life, and in those small and vast abandonments I have felt terrible guilt. ❋ Michael Henry (2011)

After hundreds of bankruptcies and major consolidation and track abandonments, only the efficient routes remained … the ones built with private funds. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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