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 abandonment [ə'bændənmənt添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 放弃, 抛弃, 放纵

[经] 委付, 废弃, 放弃(采矿权)


  1. Her abandonment of the idea upset him.
    她放弃了这一意见,他很不高兴。
  2. The act of abandoning; abandonment.
    放弃放弃的行为;放弃
  3. He calls it“ organized abandonment.
    他把这称为“有组织的放弃”。


abandonment
[ noun ]
  1. the act of giving something up

  2. <noun.act>
  3. withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility

  4. <noun.act>
    his abandonment of his wife and children left them penniless
  5. the voluntary surrender of property (or a right to property) without attempting to reclaim it or give it away

  6. <noun.act>


Abandonment \A*ban"don*ment\ (-ment), n. [Cf. F. abandonnement.]
1. The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned;
total desertion; relinquishment.

The abandonment of the independence of Europe.
--Burke.

2. (Mar. 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.

3. (Com. Law)
(a) The relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege, as
to mill site, etc.
(b) The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound
by a special relation, as a wife, husband, or child;
desertion.

4. Careless freedom or ease; abandon. [R.] --Carlyle.
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  1. Separately, Duke said the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued a preliminary order prohibiting Duke from recovering the abandonment costs on the two plants in the rates that it charges its partners in the Catawba Nuclear Station.
  2. "To talk, in these circumstances, of the abandonment of nuclear weapons and the substitution of a conventional deterrent is absurd," he said.
  3. George Gould, Treasury undersecretary for finance, told the House Banking Committee that lack of political support forced abandonment of efforts for the insurance and real estate powers.
  4. The molten rock hit the sea near Harry K. Brown State Park on Tuesday after destroying 139 houses and forcing the abandonment of the town of Kalapana.
  5. Evelyn Berman Frank had pleaded guilty in July to unlawful abandonment and release of the sludge - some of it toxic - in New York Harbor in 1987 and 1988.
  6. Although he said Citicorp's investment in Gemco amounted to "several million dollars," he didn't indicate what impact the abandonment of the venture would have on earnings.
  7. She has bitter memories of the Philadelphia slum in which she was raised, where she says the same pattern of fires, abandonment and flight was exploited by developers who moved in and bought up land at depressed prices.
  8. As for reversal of fixed policies and abandonment of others, the list is expanding rapidly.
  9. Using a map of the region with Nicaragua painted bright red, the president warned that abandonment of the Contras would lead to the spread of communism and give Moscow a "beachhead for aggression against the United States."
  10. Tired of highway traffic and inspired by the railroads' wholesale abandonment of track, railbikers have proliferated over the past decade, from a handful to perhaps several hundred.
  11. Ritter's measure would change the tax code to bar deductions for losses on the abandonment of a fully licensed nuclear plant.
  12. However, the best view is from the parcel of land just west of Canary Wharf overlooking the river. Ignore the not-quite-finished buildings and the piles of rubble signalling their hasty abandonment.
  13. Their actions make it appear that they would remain content to sign a regional treaty with Nicargua that would mean the abandonment of the opposition.
  14. But he is equally adamant that change does not mean abandonment of past principles.
  15. Wellcome's abandonment of TPA also may convince other drug companies also to relinquish development of their versions, Mr. Refsum said.
  16. In 1986 he, his wife and two daughters moved in after city pension money saved the building from abandonment by financing a new boiler, new windows, interior repairs and an anti-graffiti coating on outside walls.
  17. We're now on a track that will lead to expanded involvement, more excitement, and great motivation to build a team that will carry us to victory, and will spare the people of the agony, abandonment and neglect they felt these last seven years.
  18. To think that they would agree to cuts in their strategic and conventional arsenals in the face of unilateral American abandonment of major weapons programs is the height of folly." Bush also went on the offensive on the environmental issue.
  19. Wall, in a news conference announcing his resignation Monday, defended his record and said Gonzalez resorted to "corruption of the truth and abandonment of our historical devotion to fair play." Gonzalez dismissed Wall's complaint Tuesday.
  20. One of the biggest blows to Florence's son and daughters, they say, has been the abandonment of the family by some of their close relatives.
  21. "We assure you that these measures do not mean the abandonment of our national duty, either towards the Arab-Israeli conflict, or towards the Palestinian cause," the king said in a 17-minute address broadcast on national television.
  22. It paid fifteen-sixteenths of the insured value of the hull but declined to accept notice of abandonment. So the shipowners were left with the vessel, which they sold, and the proceeds of insurance.
  23. While these executives are quick to point out that they are not advocating the abandonment of traditional "left-brain" management practices, they acknowledge that they use their intuitive ability to guide their most important decisions.
  24. But in the mountainous regions in the states of Minas Gerais and Espirito Santo, 'it is often a case of pure and simple abandonment', he says.
  25. Loss of the spinoff business from a new generation of television would be even more disastrous than losses from America's abandonment of video cassette recorders and compact disk players, according to a study by the American Electronics Association.
  26. Privatization would mean abandonment of service that in many areas is vital to maintaining a viable network of alternative sources of commuter transportation.
  27. Two comparable cases involved government money: the evacuation of homes built atop tons of chemical waste at Love Canal in Niagara Falls, N.Y., and the virtual abandonment in 1982 of Times Beach, Mo., which was tainted by dioxin.
  28. The Tuinmans were being held in Salt Lake County Jail on Idaho charges of felony abandonment of a child.
  29. For most ordinary observers Delhi's abandonment of the past and its gaudy embrace of western modernity have made it just one more over-crowded third-world city. William Dalrymple, though, is not an ordinary observer.
  30. That means refocusing on the airline following the departure of Richard Ferris as chairman, as well as the abandonment of Mr. Ferris's broad travel-services strategy by putting Allegis's rental-car and hotel operations on the block.
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