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词汇 abatement
释义 abatement
noun[ U ]
uk /əˈbeɪt.mənt/ us /əˈbeɪt.mənt/
a reduction in the amount or degree of something: 减少,减轻
The tax abatement will save the business thousands of pounds.减税将为企业节省数千英镑。
We need some noise abatement.我们需要让噪音减小。
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abate
A complete abatement of symptoms usually occurs within a few months.
Strict targets are being set for pollution abatement.
We went to the landlord and worked out an abatement of rent.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Becoming and making less strong
abate
adulterant
adulterate
adulterated
adulteration
dull
ease
emasculation
enervate
enervating
enervatingly
fade
hedge
melt
relieve
totter
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turn to jellyidiom
undimmed
unsubdued

abatement | Business English


abatement
noun[ C or U ]
uk /əˈbeɪtmənt/us
a situation in which a rate, price, etc. goes down, or goes up more slowly than before:
We have requested an abatement of interest on our late tax payment, as we received the tax bill late.
a reduction in level, especially of something that is harmful:
Industries have been set targets for the abatement of carbon emissions.
noise abatement

See also


carbon abatement
letter of abatement
rent abatement
tax abatement

Examples of abatement


abatement
The use of flexibility mechanisms is restricted to being supplemental to the domestic abatement.
Using simulations, we have seen that increases in abatement spending may yield a win-win situation.
The findings on costs and abatement efficiencies are similar to those reported in section 2 of this paper.
The cost function estimates provide evidence of significant scale economies and high marginal abatement cost in wastewater treatment by small-scale factories.
These results again suggest that low charge rates can have effects in transition economies, if abatement costs are low enough.
This result suggests that contrary to what we expected, the existence of abatement equipment such as filters, electrostatic precipitators.
Such abatement, however, is costly and the greater the extent of abatement, for example as a fraction of potential emissions, the more costly abatement becomes.
Variation in operating costs across abatement facilities was mainly based on differences in the quantity of electricity used, equipment maintenance costs, and labour cost.
Emission standards should be set with a consideration of both marginal abatements costs and marginal abatement benefits, relations that are plant and location specific.
When the expected marginal penalty exceeds the marginal abatement costs of the source, it will choose to comply with its emission permits.
The difference in response could also reflect increasing marginal abatement costs: abatement activities are more difficult and expensive at advanced stages of cleanup.
If the expected marginal damages are large, because the probability and/or magnitude of possible harms are large, then stringent first-period abatement will be appropriate.
Therefore, in terms of social costs of abatement an emissions tax is as efficient as a standard.
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.
It is the final allocation of emissions and associated abatement costs that countries ultimately care about.
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