Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Reduction in amount, degree, or intensity; diminution.
- noun The amount lowered; a reduction.
- noun Law The act of reducing something, such as a tax, for some period of time or of eliminating something, such as a nuisance, permanently.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of abating, or the state of being abated; diminution, decrease, reduction, or mitigation: as, abatement of grief or pain.
- noun The amount, quantity, or sum by which anything is abated or reduced; deduction; decrease.
- noun In heraldry, a mark annexed to coat-armor, in order to denote some dishonorable act of the person bearing the coat of arms, or his illegitimate descent.
- noun In law: Removal or destruction, as of a nuisance.
- noun Failure; premature end; suspension or diminution, as of an action or of a legacy. See
abate . - noun The act of intruding on a freehold vacated by the death of its former owner, and not yet entered on by the heir or devisee.
- noun In revenue law:
- noun A deduction from or refunding of duties on goods damaged during importation or in store.
- noun A deduction from the amount of a tax. The mode of abatement is prescribed by statute.
- noun In carpentry, the waste of a piece of stuff caused by working it into shape.
- noun Rebate, allowance, deduction, discount, mitigation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of abating, or the state of being abated; a lessening, diminution, or reduction; removal or putting an end to.
- noun The amount abated; that which is taken away by way of reduction; deduction; decrease; a rebate or discount allowed.
- noun (Her.) A mark of dishonor on an escutcheon.
- noun (Law) The entry of a stranger, without right, into a freehold after the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee.
- noun (Law) plea to the effect that from some formal defect (e.g. misnomer, lack of jurisdiction) the proceedings should be abated.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of abating
- noun an interruption in the intensity or amount of something
Etymologies
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Examples
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The centers are a lost cause, and pre-fire prevention and abatement is obviously the most bang for the buck.
Matthew Yglesias » The Trouble With Genocide Prevention 2008
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For this particular story, we'll say the abatement is contained within the community (rather than a new, out-of-state biz, which is good locally and bad elsewhere).
Archive 2005-08-01 2005
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By the rude poets of the age, John of Brienne is compared to Hector, Roland, and Judas Machabaeus: 43 but their credit, and his glory, receive some abatement from the silence of the Greeks.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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With taxes, you know what carbon abatement is going to cost (which industry usually likes, see comment #2 above), but the actual amount of carbon abatement is uncertain (which environmentalists don’t like).
Matthew Yglesias » The Strange Persistence of Carbon Tax Advocates 2009
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Either way, the result -- in theory -- will be cost-effective pollution abatement, that is, overall abatement achieved at minimum aggregate cost.
Robert Stavins: Environmental Problems and the Myth of Simple Market Solutions 2009
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The abatement was a big part of the appeal -- he pays about $125 in annual property taxes for a condo he bought for $490,000.
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A third alternative is a plea of abatement, which is a plea praying that the indictment may be quashed, for some defect which the plea points out.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 Various
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Bevel's attorney is seeking what's known as an abatement.
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Bevel's attorney is seeking what's known as an abatement.
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Bevel's attorney is seeking what's known as an abatement.
emakrizi commented on the word abatement
The villagers awaited the abatement of the flood waters to cross the river.
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March 31, 2009
racquelcline commented on the word abatement
Sustainability research- "Finally, we provide a measure of cost-effectiveness for solid-state lighting in the context of other climate change abatement policies."
November 1, 2010
itsteganyay commented on the word abatement
"The morrow produced no abatement of Mrs. Bennet's ill-humour or ill health." - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
August 16, 2015