abridgement
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Noun[edit]
abridgement (countable and uncountable, plural abridgements)
- (chiefly UK) Alternative form of abridgment
- 1960 August, “New Reading on Railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 512:
- CHEMINS DE FER. Edited by Jean Herbert. Elsevier Publishing Co. [...] 30s. [...] The work of abridgement has been skilfully done by excluding financial, administrative and general engineering terms.
References[edit]
- “abridgement”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.