ABATEMENTS Synonyms

• an amount allowed or granted (as during a given period)

• a sum granted as reimbursement for expenses

• an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances

• a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits

• a reserve fund created by a charge against profits in order to provide for changes in the value of a company's assets

• the act of allowing

• put on a fixed allowance, as of food

• a contract granting the right to operate a subsidiary business

• the act of conceding or yielding

• a point conceded or yielded

• the temporal property of being cut short

• the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation

• the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable

• a reduction in quantity or rate

• a reduction in the gross amount on which a tax is calculated; reduces taxes by the percentage fixed for the taxpayer's income bracket

• an amount or percentage deducted

• something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied)

• reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect)

• the act of subtracting (removing a part from the whole)

• the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise

• the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise

• interest on an annual basis deducted in advance on a loan

• a refund of some fraction of the amount paid

• an amount or percentage deducted

• bar from attention or consideration

• give a reduction in price on

• (law) the privilege of using something that is not your own (as using another's land as a right of way to your own land)

• the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance)

• immunity from an obligation or duty

• a deduction allowed to a taxpayer because of his status (having certain dependents or being blind or being over 65 etc.)

• an act exempting someone

• mercifulness as a consequence of being lenient or tolerant

• a disposition to yield to the wishes of someone

• lightening a penalty or excusing from a chore by judges or parents or teachers

• to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious

• a partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances

• the action of lessening in severity or intensity

• quality of being moderate and avoiding extremes

• a change for the better

• the trait of avoiding excesses

• the action of lessening in severity or intensity

• a refund of some fraction of the amount paid

• a rectangular groove made to hold two pieces together

• give a reduction in the price during a sale

• cut a rebate in (timber or stone)

• join with a rebate

• the act of decreasing or reducing something

• any process in which electrons are added to an atom or ion (as by removing oxygen or adding hydrogen); always occurs accompanied by oxidation of the reducing agent

• the act of reducing complexity

• (physiology) the gradual lengthening of inactive muscle or muscle fibers

• (physics) the exponential return of a system to equilibrium after a disturbance

• a feeling of refreshing tranquility and an absence of tension or worry

• an occurrence of control or strength weakening

• freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility)

• a method of solving simultaneous equations by guessing a solution and then reducing the errors that result by successive approximations until all the errors are less than some specified amount

• the act of making less strict

• an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease)

• a payment of money sent to a person in another place

• (law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court)

• the act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance

• a grant paid by a government to an enterprise that benefits the public

• the failure to develop some part or organ

• the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation

• forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority

• (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires

• a formal written statement of relinquishment