RELINQUISHMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does relinquishment mean? 

• RELINQUISHMENT (noun)
  The noun RELINQUISHMENT has 2 senses:

1. a verbal act of renouncing a claim or right or position etc.

2. the act of giving up and abandoning a struggle or task etc.

  Familiarity information: RELINQUISHMENT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RELINQUISHMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A verbal act of renouncing a claim or right or position etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

relinquishing; relinquishment

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

renouncement; renunciation (an act (spoken or written) declaring that something is surrendered or disowned)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "relinquishment"):

giving up; surrender; yielding (a verbal act of admitting defeat)

Derivation:

relinquish (part with a possession or right)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of giving up and abandoning a struggle or task etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

relinquishing; relinquishment

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

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "relinquishment"):

ceding; cession (the act of ceding)

handover (act of relinquishing property or authority etc)

discharge; release; waiver (a formal written statement of relinquishment)

Derivation:

relinquish (release, as from one's grip)

relinquish (turn away from; give up)

 Context examples 

“What must be done,” said Traddles, “is this. First, the deed of relinquishment, that we have heard of, must be given over to me now—here.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The belief of being prudent, and self-denying, principally for his advantage, was her chief consolation, under the misery of a parting, a final parting; and every consolation was required, for she had to encounter all the additional pain of opinions, on his side, totally unconvinced and unbending, and of his feeling himself ill used by so forced a relinquishment.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

That his last act, completed but a few months since, was to induce Mr. W. to execute a relinquishment of his share in the partnership, and even a bill of sale on the very furniture of his house, in consideration of a certain annuity, to be well and truly paid by—HEEP—on the four common quarter-days in each and every year.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)