abandonment

1. The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment. (countable, uncountable)
2. The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband or child; desertion. (countable, uncountable) · Since he left her, she's suing him for divorce on grounds of abandonment.
3. An abandoned building or structure. (countable, uncountable) · High-profile abandonments are harder to infiltrate for urban explorers due to their heightened security.
4. The relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege; relinquishment of right to secure a patent by an inventor; relinquishment of copyright by an author. (countable, uncountable)
5. 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. (countable, uncountable)
6. The cessation of service on a particular segment of the lines of a common carrier, as granted by a government agency. (countable, uncountable)
7. A refusal to receive freight so damaged in transit as to be worthless and render carrier liable for its value. (countable, uncountable)
8. The self-surrender to an outside influence. (countable, uncountable) · For quotations using this term, see Citations:abandonment.

Plural abandonments