Abandonment

Webster's Dictionary

(1): (n.) Careless freedom or ease; abandon.

(2): (n.) The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment.

(3): (n.) The relinquishment by the insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril insured against.

(4): (n.) The relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege, as to mill site, etc.

(5): (n.) The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband, or child; desertion.