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Word: abandonment
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Meaning:
Noun:
- A refusal to receive freight so damaged in transit as to be worthless and render carrier liable for its value.
- ''(Common Law):'' The relinquishment of a right, claim or privilege, as to mill site, etc.
- ''(Common Law):'' The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband or child; desertion.
- ''(Maritime 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.
- rare Careless freedom or ease; abandon. - Thomas Carlyle
- The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment.
- The cessation of service on a particular segment of the lines of a common carrier by railroad.
Source: Wiktionary
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