abatement
IPA: ʌbˈeɪtmʌnt
noun
- 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.
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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).