Usually means: Choosing not to participate, vote.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. abstention: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. abstention: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. abstention: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. abstention: Collins English Dictionary
  5. abstention: Vocabulary.com
  6. Abstention, abstention: Wordnik
  7. abstention: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. abstention: Wiktionary
  9. abstention: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. abstention: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. abstention: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. abstention: Dictionary.com
  13. abstention: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Abstention: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Abstention: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. abstention: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. abstention: Rhymezone
  18. Abstention: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. abstention: Free Dictionary
  20. abstention: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. abstention: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. abstention: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  23. abstention: Merriam-Webster.com

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. abstention: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Bernstein's Dictionary of Bankruptcy Terminology (No longer online)
  5. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  6. abstention: Legal dictionary

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  1. abstention: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (obsolete) The act of restraining oneself.
noun:  The act of abstaining or refraining (from).
noun:  The act of declining to vote on a particular issue.
noun:  Non-participation in the political world; as a country avoiding international affairs.

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