abatement
Easing of intensity
Abatement is the reduction or lessening of something undesirable.
Legal and technical contexts favor the word: noise abatement, pollution abatement, tax abatement.
A tax abatement reduces or eliminates taxes owed, often as an incentive for development.
In law, abatement can also mean the suspension or termination of a legal proceeding.
Become or make smaller
- diminutionReduction in size
- lesseningBecoming reduced in degree
- loweringMoving something downward
- declineDecrease or refuse
drop · fall · cutback · curtailment · shrinkage · contraction · subsidence · ebb
Reduction of intensity
- moderationAvoidance of excess
- easingReducing strain or difficulty
- temperingControlled heating and cooling
- softeningBecoming less firm
dampening · attenuation · palliation · mollification · amelioration · quelling · defusing · de-escalation
Release from requirement
- deductionConclusion from premises
- rebateReturned portion of payment
- discountReduced price offered
- allowanceFixed periodic payment
waiver · credit · write-off · relief · remission · suspension · moratorium · reprieve
Forcible prevention or concealment
- eliminationAct of removing entirely
- removalAct of taking away
- terminationAct of ending something
- cessationA full stopping
control · remediation · correction · rectification · cleanup · enforcement · compliance · ordinance
decrease
Become or make smaller
- diminutionReduction in size
- lesseningBecoming reduced in degree
- loweringMoving something downward
decline · drop · fall · cutback · curtailment · shrinkage · contraction · subsidence · ebb · wane
alleviation
Reduction of intensity
- moderationAvoidance of excess
- easingReducing strain or difficulty
- temperingControlled heating and cooling
softening · dampening · attenuation · palliation · mollification · amelioration · quelling · defusing · de-escalation · subduing
exemption
Release from requirement
allowance · waiver · credit · write-off · relief · remission · suspension · moratorium · reprieve · deferral
suppression
Forcible prevention or concealment
- eliminationAct of removing entirely
- removalAct of taking away
- terminationAct of ending something
cessation · control · remediation · correction · rectification · cleanup · enforcement · compliance · ordinance · violation
- decliningdeclining, waning, fading, diminishing, decreasing
- decreasesreduction, decline, drop, fall, decrease
- government actionslaws, policies, presidential decree, resolution, mandates
- reliefrelief, phew, whew, ease, easing
- environmental serviceswaste management, remediation, air quality, water treatment, recycling
- local regulationsnoise ordinances, zoning, building codes, housing codes, health codes
abatementincrease
Growth in amount
intensification · escalation · growth · rise · augmentation
abatementestablishment
Founded organization or venue
institution · enactment · legalization · ratification · validation
- noise abatementReducing excessive loudness
- tax abatementReduction in owed levies