noun careless freedom or ease; abandon.
2. abandonment ·noun the relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege, as to mill site, ·etc.
3. abandonment ·noun the act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment.
4. abandonment ·noun the voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband, or child; desertion.
5. abandonment ·noun 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.