The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment.

The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband or child; desertion.

Since he left her, she's suing him for divorce on grounds of abandonment.

An abandoned building or structure.

High-profile abandonments are harder to infiltrate for urban explorers due to their heightened security.

The relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege; relinquishment of right to secure a patent by an inventor; relinquishment of copyright by an author. 19th century.

(law) 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. 19th century.

The cessation of service on a particular segment of the lines of a common carrier, as granted by a government agency.

A refusal to receive freight so damaged in transit as to be worthless and render carrier liable for its value.From French abandonnement, from abandonner (“to abandon, relinquish”). Abandonner was originally equivalent to mettre à bandon (“to leave to the jurisdiction, i.e. of another”), bandon being from Medieval Latin bandum, bannum (“order, decree, ban”) (See also English banns.)