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Bookmark or Share- Abdicate Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster1. : to relinquish (something, such as sovereign power) formally. abdicate a throne. 2. : to cast off : discard. abdicate a responsibility. abdicable. ˈab-di-kə-bəl. adjective. abdicator. ˈab-di-ˌkā-tər. noun. Did you know? Give it up for abdicate, a word powerful enough to undo a coronation.
- Abdication Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster: an act of abandoning or discarding a right, responsibility, etc. an abdication of authority. The militants took the liberties of Europe as a sign of moral and political abdication. Fouad Ajami. When the majority throws up its hands because the problems are too tough, that's simply an abdication of responsibility. Michael S. Serrill.
- ABDICATE definition and meaning | Collins English DictionaryIf you say that someone has abdicated responsibility for something, you disapprove of them because they have refused to accept responsibility for it any longer.
- ABDICATE | English meaning - Cambridge DictionaryStop having or doing something. abdicate verb (NOT DO) abdicate responsibility formal disapproving. to stop controlling or managing something that you are in charge of: She abdicated all responsibility for the project. See more. (Definition of abdicate from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
- ABDICATE Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.comAbdicate definition: to renounce or relinquish a throne, right, power, claim, responsibility, or the like, especially in a formal manner. See examples of ABDICATE used in a sentence.
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