1 [U] the deliberate ending of a pregnancy at an early stage:
to support / oppose abortion * a woman's right to abortion * abortion laws * I've always been anti-abortion.
2 [C] a medical operation to end a pregnancy at an early stage:
She decided to have an abortion.
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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.
This entry for abortion is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is abortion a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, abortion is tagged as noun.
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