abatement

IPA: ʌbˈeɪtmʌnt

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.
(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.

Examples of "abatement" in Sentences

The landlord refused to give any abatement.
The school was in need of a strong abatement program.
A tax abatement sought from the city was unsuccessful.
Bevel's attorney is seeking what's known as an abatement.
It promotes the abatement of hatred by promoting reasoned debate.
The centers are a lost cause, and pre-fire prevention and abatement is obviously the most bang for the buck.
The abatement was a big part of the appeal -- he pays about $125 in annual property taxes for a condo he bought for $490,000.
Either way, the result -- in theory -- will be cost-effective pollution abatement, that is, overall abatement achieved at minimum aggregate cost.
A third alternative is a plea of abatement, which is a plea praying that the indictment may be quashed, for some defect which the plea points out.
For this particular story, we'll say the abatement is contained within the community (rather than a new, out-of-state biz, which is good locally and bad elsewhere).
By the rude poets of the age, John of Brienne is compared to Hector, Roland, and Judas Machabaeus: 43 but their credit, and his glory, receive some abatement from the silence of the Greeks.
With taxes, you know what carbon abatement is going to cost (which industry usually likes, see comment #2 above), but the actual amount of carbon abatement is uncertain (which environmentalists don’t like).