abatement

abate | American Dictionary

abate
verb[ I/T ]
us/əˈbeɪt/
to become less strong, or to make something less strong:
Our desire for consumer goods has not abated.

abate | Business English

abate
verb
 formaluk /əˈbeɪt/us
[ I ]
if something such as a price or level abates, it goes up more slowly than before, or it goes down:
Gains in oil prices are unlikely to abate within the next few months.
[ I or T ]
to become or make something become weaker, lower, less serious, etc.:
Inflation is finally showing signs of abating.
The mayor plans to abate air pollution in the city by limiting traffic.

Examples of abate

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Therefore, the tax payments are not high enough to affect the decision to abate by using a different coal type.
The plants choose low-ash coal to abate particulate emissions.
An emissions tax induces efficient allocation of abatement across firms, even when all the firms are different and some firms abate more than the others.
However, we will disregard that possibility as plants always have other ways of abating emissions than reducing production.
We conclude with estimates of the marginal cost of abating additional carbon emissions using crop residues.
The second theme, having breathing space in suffering, provided an opportunity to recover balance in life when intense suffering abated.
Healthy adaptation (indeed survival) relies on the ability to produce increased levels of cortisol under stress and to reduce production once stress has abated.
Her suffering abated insofar as the framework of self against which illness is experienced and understood disintegrated.
The other five sources considered in this study would compensate for this by abating more than their legislated requirements.
At the same time it may be cheaper to abate today than in the future.
However, this study also identifies other factors that cause agricultural extensification at the household level to abate.
All this can be interpreted as an attempt to diminish the cost of abating pollution from buses and trucks.
Unfortunately, it appears that the confusion has not abated.
The brisk counterpoint and stern tone abates only briefly towards the end, for a moment of hymn-like unity on the words 'be pious, be wise'.
As the complication phase abated, the patients experienced that they regained hopefulness and had time to reflect on existential issues.
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