abolition
/ˌæb·əˈlɪʃ·ən/ n [U]Definition
› the official ending of an activity or custom › US history Abolition also means the official end to slavery in the US, which took place in 1863.
(Definition of abolition n from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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