DISCONTINUANCE
\dˌɪskəntˈɪnjuːəns], \dˌɪskəntˈɪnjuːəns], \d_ˌɪ_s_k_ə_n_t_ˈɪ_n_j_uː_ə_n_s]\
Definitions of DISCONTINUANCE
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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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.
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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.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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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.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Discontinuation.
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The act of discontinuing; interruption; intermission.
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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n. [Latin] Act of discontinuing, or the state of being discontinued; want of continued connection or continuity of parts;—cessation; intermission; interruption; separation; disunion.
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