0 present participle of abdicate --
1 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.
2 to stop controlling or managing something that you are in charge of: --
She abdicated all responsibility for the project.
He referred to county councils abdicating their responsibilities.
We are abdicating our responsibilities if we do not take up that challenge.
In the past year, it has responded by abdicating responsibility and undermining the principle of authority, which is profoundly damaging to our children's education.
Is that not abdicating international control over two-thirds of the earth's surface, which is already potentially an arsenal, a gold mine and a sewer?
If an organisation is in the position of assessing people and deciding what services to provide, then the local authority would be abdicating its responsibilities.
This may protect your dogmas, but as politicians you are simply abdicating your responsibility to do everything in your power to combat unemployment.
It would appear that they are abdicating their responsibilities in that regard.
In doing so, they are abdicating the responsibility they have in playing a part in the security of the civilian population.
