Usually means: Condensed form of a text.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word abridgment:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. abridgment: Merriam-Webster
  2. abridgment: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. abridgment: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. abridgment: Collins English Dictionary
  5. abridgment: Vocabulary.com
  6. Abridgment, abridgment: Wordnik
  7. abridgment: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. abridgment: Wiktionary
  9. abridgment: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. abridgment (abridgement): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. abridgment: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Abridgment, abridgment: Dictionary.com
  13. Abridgment: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Abridgment: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. abridgment: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. abridgment: Rhymezone
  17. Abridgment: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. abridgment: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. abridgment: FreeDictionary.org
  20. abridgment: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. abridgment: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. abridgment: Merriam-Webster

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. abridgment: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. abridgment: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. abridgment: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (abridgment)

noun:  (US) The act of abridging; reduction or deprivation
noun:  (US) The state of being abridged or lessened.
noun:  (US) An epitome or compend, as of a book; a shortened or abridged form; an abbreviation.
noun:  (obsolete) That which abridges or cuts short; hence, an entertainment that makes the time pass quickly
noun:  (dated, law) Any of various brief statements of case law made before modern reporting of legal cases.
noun:  (law) The leaving out of certain portions of a plaintiff's demand, the writ still holding good for the remainder.

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