Abatement Definition

ə-bātmənt
abatements
noun
abatements
Reduction in amount, degree, or intensity; diminution.
American Heritage
A lessening or reduction.
Webster's New World
The amount lowered; a reduction.
American Heritage
An amount deducted; extent of a reduction.
Webster's New World
The act of reducing something, such as a tax, for some period of time or of eliminating something, such as a nuisance, permanently.
American Heritage
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Other Word Forms of Abatement

Noun

Singular:
abatement
Plural:
abatements

Origin of Abatement

  • From Middle French abatement, from Old French abatre. Equivalent to abate (“to beat down”) +‎ -ment (“the result of”).

    From Wiktionary

  • From Middle English, from Anglo-Norman abatre (“to abate”) + -ment.

    From Wiktionary

Abatement Sentence Examples

  • His obesity did not cause any abatement of activity when next he took the field.

  • The notice must require the abatement of the nuisance within a specified time, and must prescribe the works which in the opinion of the council are necessary to be done.

  • If at least half of the harvest in any year is destroyed by accident, the lessee (a) in the case of a lease for several years, obtains, at the end of his lease, a refund of rent, by way of indemnity, unless he has been indemnified by preceding harvests; (b) in the case of a lease for a year only, may secure a proportional abatement of the current rent.

  • The proceedings against him were revived, a committee of privileges deciding on the 19th of March 1679 that the dissolution of parliament was no abatement of an impeachment.

  • The remission or abatement lasts generally throughout the morning; and about noon there is an exacerbation, seldom ushered in by chills, which continues till the early morning following, when it remits or abates as before.

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