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ABOLISHMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does abolishment mean? 

ABOLISHMENT (noun)
  The noun ABOLISHMENT has 1 sense:

1. the act of abolishing a system or practice or institution (especially abolishing slavery)play

  Familiarity information: ABOLISHMENT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ABOLISHMENT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of abolishing a system or practice or institution (especially abolishing slavery)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

abolishment; abolition

Context example:

the abolition of capital punishment

Hypernyms ("abolishment" is a kind of...):

conclusion; ending; termination (the act of ending something)

Derivation:

abolish (do away with)


 Context examples 


This gene is involved in transcriptional regulation and mutations in the gene are associated with the abolishment of transcriptional repression.

(NR2F6 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)



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