discontinuance – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
discontinuance
n.
pause, interruption, cessation
Discontinuation
Discontinuation is the process of quitting a procedure, such as the course of treatment with a drug or a consumer product line.
discontinuance
Noun
1. the act of discontinuing or breaking off; an interruption (temporary or permanent)
(synonym) discontinuation
(antonym) continuance, continuation
(hypernym) termination, ending, conclusion
(hyponym) disfranchisement
(derivation) discontinue, stop, cease, give up, quit, lay off
discontinuance
n.
přerušení, pauza; přestávka
Discontinuance
(n.)
The termination of an action in practice by the voluntary act of the plaintiff; an entry on the record that the plaintiff discontinues his action.
(n.)
The act of discontinuing, or the state of being discontinued; want of continued connection or continuity; breaking off; cessation; interruption; as, a discontinuance of conversation or intercourse; discontinuance of a highway or of travel.
(n.)
That technical interruption of the proceedings in pleading in an action, which follows where a defendant does not answer the whole of the plaintiff's declaration, and the plaintiff omits to take judgment for the part unanswered.
(n.)
A breaking off or interruption of an estate, which happened when an alienation was made by a tenant in tail, or other tenant, seized in right of another, of a larger estate than the tenant was entitled to, whereby the party ousted or injured was driven to his real action, and could not enter. This effect of such alienation is now obviated by statute in both England and the United States.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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