abridgement

English

Etymology

From abridge +‎ -ment.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈbɹɪd͡ʒ.mənt/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

abridgement (countable and uncountable, plural abridgements)

1. (chiefly UK) Alternative form of abridgment
   • 1960 August, “New Reading on Railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 512:

     CHEMINS DE FER. Edited by Jean Herbert. Elsevier Publishing Co. [...] 30s. [...] The work of abridgement has been skilfully done by excluding financial, administrative and general engineering terms.

References

• “abridgement”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.