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  2. Abandon - Wikipedia

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    Abandonment (emotional), a subjective emotional state in which people feel undesired, left behind, insecure, or discarded Abandonment (legal), a legal term regarding property

  3. Abandonment (existentialism) - Wikipedia

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    Abandonment, in philosophy, refers to the infinite freedom of humanity without the existence of a condemning or omnipotent higher power.Original existentialism explores the liminal experiences of anxiety, death, "the nothing" and nihilism; the rejection of science (and above all, causal explanation) as an adequate framework for understanding human being; and the introduction of "authenticity ...

  4. Abandonment (emotional) - Wikipedia

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    Feelings of emotional abandonment can stem from numerous situations. According to Makino et al: Whether one considers a romantic rejection, the dissolution of a friendship, ostracism by a group, estrangement from family members, or merely being ignored or excluded in casual encounters, rejections have myriad emotional, psychological, and interpersonal consequences.

  5. Abandonment (legal) - Wikipedia

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    [2] By contrast, an example of statutory abandonment (albeit in a common law jurisdiction) is the abandonment by a bankruptcy trustee under 11 U.S.C. § 554. In Scots law , failure to assert a legal right in a way that implies the abandonment of that property is called "taciturnity", while the term "abandonment" in Scots law refers specifically ...

  6. Abandonment cost - Wikipedia

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    It is often used in a cost-benefit analysis to determine if a marginal venture should be continued or if it is more financially beneficial to abandon the venture and plow the remaining money into something else in an attempt to recoup the losses. For example, General Motors had some abandonment costs from shutting down the Pontiac and Saturn ...

  7. Ship abandonment - Wikipedia

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    Ship abandonment can occur for a variety of reasons and cannot be defined in a single way. [1] Most cases are of ships abandoned by owners because of economic hardship or economic issues, [1] for example because it becomes less expensive than continuing to operate, paying debts, port fees, crew wages, etc.

  8. Abandonware - Wikipedia

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    Another important example for open sourced general software is the office suite StarOffice which was released by Sun Microsystems in October 2000 as OpenOffice.org [110] and is in continued development as Collabora Online, LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice, a broad range of enterprise level support options are available.

  9. Child abandonment - Wikipedia

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    For example, in the U.S. state of Georgia, it is a misdemeanor to willfully and voluntarily abandon a child, and a felony to abandon one's child and leave the state. In 1981, this distinction was upheld as constitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court against a parent's argument that it denied parents the right to travel and thereby denied parents ...