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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Relinquishment \Re*lin"quish*ment\ (-ment), n.
     The act of relinquishing.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  relinquishment
       n 1: a verbal act of renouncing a claim or right or position etc.
            [syn: {relinquishing}]
       2: the act of giving up and abandoning a struggle or task etc.
          [syn: {relinquishing}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  50 Moby Thesaurus words for "relinquishment":
     abandonment, abdication, abeyance, abjuration, abjurement,
     breakoff, capitulation, cease, ceasing, cessation, cession, close,
     closing, cold storage, demission, deposal, desinence, desistance,
     discontinuance, discontinuation, dropping out, emeritus status,
     forbearance, forced resignation, forswearing, giving in,
     giving over, giving up, handing over, nonexercise, recedence,
     recession, renouncement, renunciation, resignation, retiral,
     retirement, retreat, shutdown, stopping, superannuation, surcease,
     surrender, suspension, termination, voluntary resignation, waiver,
     withdrawal, withdrawing, yielding
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  RELINQUISHMENT, practice. A forsaking, abandoning, or giving over a right; 
  for example, a plaintiff may relinquish a bad count in a declaration, and 
  proceed on the good: a man may relinquish a part of his claim in order to 
  give a court jurisdiction. 
  
  

















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