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  • n  a verbal act of renouncing a claim or right or position etc.
  • n  the act of giving up and abandoning a struggle or task etc.

  • The 54-year-old Greek monarch was apprehensive that a temporary relinquishment of his throne might become permanentthat, in effect, he might be signing his abdication.
  • By any legal interpretation, Green and Gauerke believe, the private school plan requires "complete relinquishment of all state support for public education.
  • Even as Washington on Friday awaited DeLay's relinquishment of the majority leader's role, Texas tea leaf readers saw more trouble ahead.
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  • Don McKinnon in Associated Press of Pakistan
    Mckinnon said, "This follows the earlier relinquishment by President Musharraf of his position as Chief of Army Staff, which had been a longstanding demand of Commonwealth Heads of Government, reiterated most recently at their meeting in Kampala."
  • Anthony Scirica in Law.com (registration)
    When viewed that way, Scirica said, the early retirement payments "are more analogous to buyouts of unexpired contract rights than to severance payments or payments for the relinquishment of rights of at-will employees."
  • Alpha Oumar Konare in AllAfrica.com
    Alpha Oumar Konare said "compromise, mutual concessions and relinquishment" would further lay the foundations of peace, which were vital for development in Africa.

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