relinquishment

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

relinquishment
    n 1: a verbal act of renouncing a claim or right or position
         etc. [syn: {relinquishment}, {relinquishing}]
    2: the act of giving up and abandoning a struggle or task etc.
       [syn: {relinquishment}, {relinquishing}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Relinquishment \Re*lin"quish*ment\ (-ment), n.
   The act of relinquishing.
   [1913 Webster]

from Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

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.

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

50 Moby Thesaurus words for "relinquishment":
      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