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- noun Plural form of
abater .
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_ But to be in love with a waiting-woman! with an eater of fragments, a simperer at lower end of a table, with mighty golls, rough-grained, and red with starching, those discouragers and abaters of elevated love!
The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 04 John Dryden 1665
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Under an carbon permit auction firms have incentives to bid in line with their abatement costs and permits would go to the high cost abaters (who would be free to emit CO2).
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