Word Meanings - ABANDONMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. (more info) 1. The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion;

Additional info about word: ABANDONMENT

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. (more info) 1. The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment. The abandonment of the independence of Europe. Burke.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ABANDONMENT)

• Cession
• Concession
• yielding
• surrender
• abandonment
• relinquishment
• grant
• Defection
• Failure
• dereliction
• desertion
• Dereliction
• Abandonment
• failure
• shortcoming
• neglect
• Dispensation
• Economy
• dealing
• revelation
• distribution
• arrangement
• visitation
• exemption
• immunity
• privilege
• dismissal
• disuse
• indulgence
• Resignation
• Surrender
• forsaking
• abdication
• renunciation
• submission
• acquiescence
• patience
• endurance

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ABANDONMENT)

• Consider
• respect
• notice
• observe
• regard
• esteem
• tend
• attend
• foster
• study

Related words: (words related to ABANDONMENT)

• RESIGNATION
  1. The act of resigning or giving up, as a claim, possession, office, or the like; surrender; as, the resignation of a crown or comission. 2. The state of being resigned or submissive; quiet or patient submission; unresisting acquiescence; as,
• CONSIDERINGLY
  With consideration or deliberation.
• YIELD
  pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be
• DISMISSAL
  Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
• FORSAKE
  1. To quit or leave entirely; to desert; to abandon; to depart or withdraw from; to leave; as, false friends and flatterers forsake us in adversity. If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments. Ps. lxxxix. 30. 2. To renounce; to
• DEALBATION
  Act of bleaching; a whitening.
• ESTEEM
  1. To set a value on; to appreciate the worth of; to estimate; to value; to reckon. Then he forsook God, which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. Deut. xxxii. 15. Thou shouldst esteem his censure and authority to be of
• FORSAKER
  One who forsakes or deserts.
• VISITATION
  The act of a naval commander who visits, or enters on board, a vessel belonging to another nation, for the purpose of ascertaining her character and object, but without claiming or exercising a right of searching the vessel. It is, however, usually
• DEFECTIONIST
  One who advocates or encourages defection.
• YIELDABLE
  Disposed to yield or comply. -- Yield"a*ble*ness, n. Bp. Hall.
• DEALFISH
  A long, thin fish of the arctic seas .
• RENUNCIATION
  Formal declination to take out letters of administration, or to assume an office, privilege, or right. Syn. -- Renouncement; disownment; disavowal; disavowment; disclaimer; rejection; abjuration; recantation; denial; abandonment; relinquishment.
• NOTICE
  1. The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note. How ready is envy to mingle with the notices we take of other persons ! I. Watts. 2. Intelligence, by whatever means communicated; knowledge
• RESPECTER
  One who respects. A respecter of persons, one who regards or judges with partiality. Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. Acts x.
• YIELDANCE
  1. The act of producing; yield; as, the yieldance of the earth. Bp. Hall. 2. The act of yielding; concession. South.
• ESTEEMABLE
  Worthy of esteem; estimable. "Esteemable qualities." Pope.
• REVELATION
  1. The act of revealing, disclosing, or discovering to others what was before unknown to them. 2. That which is revealed. The act of revealing divine truth. That which is revealed by God to man; esp., the Bible. By revelation he made known unto
• DERELICTION
  A retiring of the sea, occasioning a change of high-water mark, whereby land is gained. (more info) 1. The act of leaving with an intention not to reclaim or resume; an utter forsaking abandonment. Cession or dereliction, actual or tacit, of other
• ATTENDMENT
  An attendant circumstance. The uncomfortable attendments of hell. Sir T. Browne.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• THYROIDEAL
  Thyroid.
• ENTERDEAL
  Mutual dealings; intercourse. The enterdeal of princes strange. Spenser.
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• UNCONSIDERED
  Not considered or attended to; not regarded; inconsiderable; trifling. A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. Shak.
• IMMIGRANT
  One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; -- correlative of emigrant. Syn. -- See Emigrant.
• MISOBSERVE
  To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke.
• IDEALISTIC
  Of or pertaining to idealists or their theories.
• INCONSIDERATION
  Want of due consideration; inattention to consequences; inconsiderateness. Blindness of mind, inconsideration, precipitation. Jer. Taylor. Not gross, willful, deliberate, crimes; but rather the effects of inconsideration. Sharp.
• MISESTEEM
  Want of esteem; disrespect. Johnson.
• PROCESSIONALIST
  One who goes or marches in a procession.