0 to end an activity or custom officially: --
I think bullfighting should be abolished.
1 to put an end to something, such as an organization, rule, or custom: --
2 to end an activity, custom, etc. completely or by law or official action: --
The government has pledged to abolish child poverty by 2020.
Educationalists have called on the government to abolish tax on computers.
Instead, they invoked these same values for abolishing cruel penalities.
The practice of deputization, which had rendered some posts essentially sinecures, was abolished, and meaningful salaries replaced compensation by fees.
He consolidated and clarified a host of statutes, abolished obsolete offences, made significant procedural changes, and introduced a professional police force.
Its reformist zeal was most evident in the desire to abolish pre-capitalist modes of agricultural production symbolised by feudal intermediaries or zamindars.
Moreover, instead of abolishing referrals, it argued in favour of harmonisation of the national procedures.
Ordinance 9 of 1882 abolished the capitation tax and reinstated the export duty on plantation crops to finance the scheme.
But this does not mean that compulsion has been abolished.
Just one year later, an amendment to abolish capital punishment was carried by a similarly close margin of 293 to 262 votes.
