Relinquishment

n.

1.

The act of relinquishing.

Noun	1.	relinquishment - a verbal act of renouncing a claim or right or position etc. Synonyms: relinquishing
	2.	relinquishment - the act of giving up and abandoning a struggle or task etc. Synonyms: relinquishing

RELINQUISHMENT, practice. A forsaking, abandoning, or giving over a right; for example, a plaintiff may relinquish a bad count in a declaration, and proceed on the good: a man may relinquish a part of his claim in order to give a court jurisdiction.

abandonment, abdication, abeyance, abjuration, abjurement, breakoff, capitulation, cease, ceasing, cessation, cession, close, closing, cold storage, demission, deposal, desinence, desistance, discontinuance, discontinuation, dropping out, emeritus status, forbearance, forced resignation, forswearing, giving in, giving over, giving up, handing over, nonexercise, recedence, recession, renouncement, renunciation, resignation, retiral, retirement, retreat, shutdown, stopping, superannuation, surcease, surrender, suspension, termination, voluntary resignation, waiver, withdrawal, withdrawing, yielding