abolish
The reforms that followed led to the abolition of the monarchy.
The abolition of student grants has forced many students to take on jobs during term time.
We advocate the abolition of all nuclear weapons.

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abolition | American Dictionary

abolition
noun[ U ]
us/ˌæb·əˈlɪʃ·ən/
the official ending of an activity or custom
US history
Abolition also means the official end to slavery in the US, which took place in 1863.

abolition | Business English

abolition
noun[ U ]
uk /ˌæbəˈlɪʃən/us
LAW, GOVERNMENT
the complete ending of an activity or custom by law or official action:
The party supports the abolition of tax relief on pension funds.

Examples of abolition

abolition
The extensive chapter on abolition, for example, skims over modes of liberation, the roles of families and post-liberation livelihoods.
In this setting, proposals for the abolition of poverty were varied and plentiful.
He proposes the abolition of all welfare benefits, contributory and non-contributory, and their replacement with short-term transitional assistance for anyone not in work.
The latter drew an income derived mainly from money-rents from tenants, which were untouched by the abolition of ' feudalism ' in 1798.
The analysis would suggest that the thorough cipipification of chieftaincy saved the institution from outright abolition, even if a good many individual chiefs were removed.
The agitation was used to demand abolition of reservations altogether.
This goal had been completed with the abolition of the three estates and the creation of a unitary and sovereign representative assembly.
Abolition of spindle oscillations in thalamic neurons disconnected from nucleus reticularis thalami.
French judicial institutions themselves remained equally popular after 1814, especially after the abolition of the non-jury special courts.
With the abolition of the national district in the early 1980s, however, this 'window of transparency' was gone.
On a practical level, this new image of the sati as victim was deeply implicated in the political debate about abolition.
Such compulsory measures have undergone little change even after the abolition of the unified grain purchase and sale system in 1985.
This was associated with a shortening and eventually abolition of the oscillatory response.
There has also been a major new factor, the abolition, or, perhaps more accurately the reduction, of capital controls.
Abolition of regulationism may be seen as part of this reform process.
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