noun [U] (written)
1 the act of leaving a person, thing or place with no intention of returning:
their childhood abandonment by their mother
2 the act of giving up an idea or stopping an activity with no intention of returning to it:
the government's abandonment of its new economic policy
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
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This entry for abandonment is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does abandonment appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — abandonment appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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