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Synonyms: Verb
deliver, give up, indulge, surrender, yield
Synonyms: Noun
abandonment, ease, lightheartedness, naturalness, spontaneity, spontaneousness, unconstraint, uninhibitedness, unrestraint
Antonyms: Verb
Antonyms: Noun
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Examples of abandon in a Sentence
Verb
They abandoned the car on a back road. That house was abandoned years ago. The approaching fire forced hundreds of people to abandon their homes. The officer refused to abandon his post. The policy abandons the most vulnerable members of society. She abandoned the party not long after the election.Noun
added spices to the stew with complete abandon
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That's what happened last weekend when the White House abandoned its threat to impose punishing tariffs on Mexico. — Matt Egan, CNN, "America's CFOs are bracing for a 2020 recession," 12 June 2019 Vacant and abandoned housing is a big problem in Indianapolis. — James Briggs, Indianapolis Star, "11 times Mayor Joe Hogsett said misleading things about his blighted housing fix," 11 June 2019 But those fairs aren’t situated along this urban stretch of road, flanked by used car lots and abandoned child care centers and rundown homes. — Amber Hunt, Cincinnati.com, "Tired and worn: Hamilton County Fairgrounds, once a statewide draw, now on life support," 11 June 2019 Experts and state officials agree that state funding is the most important key to cleaning abandoned and polluted industrial sites. — Michael Puffer, courant.com, "When industry departs, municipalities can be stuck with costly, blighted brownfield sites," 10 June 2019 Officers were able to locate Bland and follow him to a neighborhood off Glassford Hill Road, but Bland abandoned his vehicle and ran. — Aubrey Carpenter, azcentral, "Prescott police go on high-speed chase after man with an arrest warrant," 7 June 2019 University of Portland campus security officers contacted police the next day after finding an abandoned Honda with a smashed front windshield near campus, almost two miles from where Bosch was hit, the affidavit said. — oregonlive.com, "Driver arrested 2 months after leaving Portland crash that killed pedestrian, authorities say," 7 June 2019 Meanwhile, industry heavyweights such as Uber have abandoned the self-driving-semi-truck concept altogether. — Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, "U.S. Postal Service Testing Mail Transport in Self-Driving Semi Trucks," 24 May 2019 Le Pen has already shifted away from her longstanding position of abandoning the EU and the euro, the common currency that is used by 19 EU nations. — Lori Hinnant, The Seattle Times, "Tech could unite Europe’s populists ahead of EU vote in May," 19 Feb. 2019Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
Da Prato explains that her move to Italy allowed her to embrace her love of flowers with abandon. — Vogue, "Meet the Brooklyn Chef Bringing Her Etruscan Floral Style Back to Tuscany," 12 June 2019 From lining the playroom with an old shower curtain so your child can finger paint with abandon to letting him co-opt all the pillows in the house to build a killer fort, figure out ways to make your child's creative chaos tolerable for you. — Tehrene Firman, Redbook, "7 Ways You Can Teach Your Kid to Spend Time Alone Without Throwing a Tablet in Their Face," 29 Sep. 2017 Meanwhile, although Donald is still a net importer, his compatriot producers are pumping with abandon and are bound to flood the market come mid-2019. — Spencer Jakab, WSJ, "OPEC Heads for an Awkward Meeting," 23 Nov. 2018 The cover of the show’s excellent catalog has a picture of the platform Renoir built onto the swing so that his huge, cumbersome camera could move with the same abandon as the women. — Thomas Hine, Philly.com, "At Barnes, two Renoirs - father and son - share one show, diminishing the impact of both," 3 May 2018 The 22-year-old Roest raced with the ruthless abandon of an Olympic rookie and set an early time of 1 minute, 44.86 seconds over a distance where racers either set off fast and try to hold on or pace themselves throughout. — USA TODAY, "Nuis makes sure Dutch stay good as gold at Olympic Oval," 13 Feb. 2018 But there’s something universal in its haze of raw abandon twinned with slinking fears of time passing and doors closing. — August Brown, latimes.com, "Joe Cardamone of the Icarus Line finds faith in music after a string of tragedies," 20 June 2018 Keegan Siebken, as Matt, combines the arrogance of youth and the abandon of first love in character that grows into a caring man. — Elaine Schmidt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "In Tandem gets 'The Fantasticks' right," 30 Apr. 2018 That spirit of on-the-fly abandon was pervasive throughout the set. — Chris Nashawaty, SI.com, "Inside the Caddyshack Scene That Squashed the Bill Murray-Chevy Chase Beef," 17 Apr. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'abandon.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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abandonment
nounFinancial Definition of abandonment
What It Is
In the business world, abandonment refers to the purposeful surrender of ownership of an asset.
How It Works
For example, let's assume that Company XYZ owns an oil processing facility in Nigeria. The government has become very unstable there, and because the company cannot lift up and move the facility, it abandons the property and leaves the country. In doing so, it may be able to recoup some of the costs via tax deductions or other measures, but Company XYZ has surrendered its ownership of the facility.
People who trade commodities and other items using forward contracts also might be able to abandon the underlying assets by undertaking another trade that avoids having to take delivery of the assets.
Why It Matters
Abandoning assets is not as easy as abandoning an empty candy wrapper in the street. Companies often have to calculate the abandonment value of the assets they have left behind or that no longer have financial value, and usually they must get permission from various government entities to let go of physical assets. Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Statement 71 provides guidance about how companies are to account for abandoned property.
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