abolition

abolish | American Dictionary

abolish
verb[ T ]
us/əˈbɑl·ɪʃ/
to put an end to something, such as an organization, rule, or custom:
Massachusetts voters abolished rent control.

abolish | Business English

abolish
verb[ T ]
uk /əˈbɒlɪʃ/us
LAW, GOVERNMENT
to end an activity, custom, etc. completely or by law or official action:
Educationalists have called on the government to abolish tax on computers.
The government has pledged to abolish child poverty by 2020.

Examples of abolish

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However, rural reform has not abolished such ruralism but replaced it with its own version.
For these regions, this tax may now be abolished.
To placate his enemies, restrictions on the freedom of the press were first eased and then abolished.
In contrast, an electronic answering form can abolish this artificial answering effect.
The reform in 1986 also abolished a special rate for families with low incomes, which had been adopted since 1978.
And yet, field studies are needed to retrieve this interpretation, which is forbidden, abolished, purified away by the top part.
In 1747, the system of land tenure by which a tenant could be summoned for military service, known as hereditary ward-holding, was abolished.
Just one year later, an amendment to abolish capital punishment was carried by a similarly close margin of 293 to 262 votes.
But this does not mean that compulsion has been abolished.
Ordinance 9 of 1882 abolished the capitation tax and reinstated the export duty on plantation crops to finance the scheme.
Moreover, instead of abolishing referrals, it argued in favour of harmonisation of the national procedures.
Its reformist zeal was most evident in the desire to abolish pre-capitalist modes of agricultural production symbolised by feudal intermediaries or zamindars.
He consolidated and clarified a host of statutes, abolished obsolete offences, made significant procedural changes, and introduced a professional police force.
The practice of deputization, which had rendered some posts essentially sinecures, was abolished, and meaningful salaries replaced compensation by fees.
Instead, they invoked these same values for abolishing cruel penalities.
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