0 If a king or queen abdicates, he or she makes a formal statement that he or she no longer wants to be king or queen:
King Edward VIII abdicated (the British throne) in 1936.
1 to stop controlling or managing something that you are in charge of:
She abdicated all responsibility for the project.
2 to give up a position as king, or to fail to take responsibility for something:
The administration has abdicated its leadership on this critical issue.
What some of my colleagues call "depoliticising monetary policy"others might call"abdicating responsibility for monetary policy".
If he abdicated from his position of wanting the compulsory powers, a great deal of the difficulty would go.
Abdicating power to the market undermines and devalues democracy, and gives comfort only to those for whom democracy is a threat.
We realise that free public opinion has abdicated its position in this country.
I say it is abdicating its responsibilities now.
We are not abdicating responsibility—that is what happened under the previous lot.
Has he abdicated all responsibility for public sector housing?
They have abdicated their responsibility in the way in which they have sought to tackle these problems.
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