Definition of abatement in English:

noun

• (often in legal use) the ending, reduction, or lessening of something.

  ‘noise abatement’

  ‘an abatement in the purchase price’

  More example sentences

  • ‘A single case of noise-induced hearing loss might be the trigger for intensified noise abatement.’
  • ‘But victims complain that it takes a long time to obtain a noise abatement notice requiring their neighbours to turn down the volume.’
  • ‘The pub was served with the noise abatement order after a resident of a neighbouring housing development complained to the council.’
  • ‘Colchester Council slapped a noise abatement notice on the site.’
  • ‘A noise abatement order issued in November last year failed to stop the music.’
  • ‘He was informed by the seller that it required as much as $400,000 worth of asbestos abatement.’
  • ‘Things heated up as the TA started negotiating rent abatement for tenants who were without gas for months on end.’
  • ‘That path, that we have tended to follow in the past as in the present, has led us no closer to an abatement of the widespread savagery of criminals.’
  • ‘This is not to over-simplify the crime wave that's sweeping through the country with no apparent abatement.’
  • ‘The fact that there is no abatement also differentiates the student allowance from all other government support.’
  • ‘Council leader Smith has promised an abatement of problems in the Purfleet area caused by hundreds of heavy lorries.’
  • ‘Since January 2002 this trend has continued and shows no signs of abatement.’
  • ‘It is expected to be anchored there for a number of days to await the abatement of unusual southerly headwinds.’
  • ‘I have been very idle lately; both from the overpowering idea of our dead poets and from abatement of my love of fame.’
  • ‘My advice would be to hold out for a rent abatement of some sort.’
  • ‘Despite the obstacles early weed abatement programs faced, weed control efforts proliferated.’
  • ‘Lead abatement has been subject to stringent laws for many years throughout the country.’
  • ‘Monday's ruling from the state tax commission has extended the tax abatement until 2010.’
  • ‘MSgt Samson's discovery set in motion the permanent abatement of this hazard.’
  • ‘He said the federal government targets only about $150 million a year for lead abatement.’

  Synonyms

  subsiding, dying away, dying down, dying out, dropping away, dropping off, lessening, easing, easing off, decrease, diminishing, moderation, decline, declining, fade, dwindling, cooling off, tailing off, petering out, tapering off, wane, waning, ebb, relenting, desisting, weakening

  lessening, decrease, moderation, easing, softening, soothing, relief, blunting, deadening, alleviation, mitigation, mollification, allaying, assuagement, palliation, tempering, appeasement, attenuation

  decrease, reduction, lowering

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