abatement
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English
Etymology
From Middle English abatement, from Anglo-Norman abatre (“to abate”) (from Old French abatre), + -ment; equivalent to abate + -ment.
Pronunciation
Noun
abatement (countable and uncountable, plural abatements)
- The act of abating, or the state of being abated; a lessening, diminution, or reduction; a moderation; removal or putting an end to; the suppression.
- The abatement of a nuisance is the suppression thereof.
- (accounting) The deduction of minor revenues incidental to an operation in calculating the cost of the operation.
- (law) The action of a person that abates, or without proper authority enters a residence after the death of the owner and before the heir takes possession.
- (law) The reduction of the proceeds of a will, when the debts have not yet been satisfied; the reduction of taxes due.
- An amount abated; that which is taken away by way of reduction; deduction; decrease; a rebate or discount allowed; in particular from a tax.
- (heraldry) A mark of dishonor on an escutcheon; any figure added to the coat of arms tending to lower the dignity or station of the bearer.
- (Scotland) Waste of stuff in preparing to size.
- A beating down, a putting down.
- A quashing, a judicial defeat, the rendering abortive by law.
- Forcible entry of a stranger into an inheritance when the person seised of it dies, and before the heir or devisee can take possession; ouster.
- rebatement, real or imaginary marks of disgrace affixed to an escutcheon.
Synonyms
- (lessening): assuagement, declension, decline, decrease, deduction, depreciation, diminution, discount, drawback, ebb, evanishment, fading, lessening, lowering, mitigation, moderation, reduction, remission, settling, sinking, subsidence, waning. See also Thesaurus:diminution
- (in tax): allowance, rebate, remission
Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of "lessening"): accession, accretion, aggrandizement, augmentation, development, dilation, enlargement, growth, increase, increment,
Derived terms
Translations
the act of abating or the state of being abated
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(accounting) The deduction of minor revenues incidental to an operation
(law) The action of a person that abates
(law) The reduction of the proceeds of a will
An amount abated
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(heraldry) A mark of dishonor on an escutcheon
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(Scotland) Waste of stuff in preparing to size
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Elliott K. Dobbie, C. William Dunmore, Robert K. Barnhart, et al. (editors), Chambers Dictionary of Etymology (Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2004 , →ISBN), page 2
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 , →ISBN)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abatement”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 2.
- ^ Laurence Urdang (editor), The Random House College Dictionary (Random House, 1984 , →ISBN), page 1
- ^ “abatement, n.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
Further reading
Abatement in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)- The Manual of Heraldry, Fifth Edition, by Anonymous, London, 1862, online at
