abandonment

noun

1 she will be charged with child abandonment:

desertion, neglect, stranding;

jilting, betrayal.

2 the buildings were used as rubbish pits after abandonment:

disuse, evacuation, neglect.

3 abandonment of the reform plan would probably result in hyperinflation:

renunciation, relinquishment, rejection, withdrawal, dropping, cessation, discontinuation, termination, stopping, surrender, dispensation.

▷antonyms adoption.

abandonment Oxford Dictionary of English