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[ verb ] refrain from voting
Used in print (Robert Wallace, "This Is the Way It Came About"...)On July_14 the Security_Council - with France and Great_Britain abstaining - voted the resolution which drew the U._N. into the Congo . Related terms |
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[ verb ] choose to refrain
Examples "i abstain from alcohol" Used in print (The New Republic, 145: 19...)More recently , the chairman of the Atomic_Energy Commission , Dr._Glenn_T._Seaborg , `` admitted '' to a news_conference in Las_Vegas , Nevada , that the US might fall_behind Russia ( he apparently meant in weapons development ) if the Soviets continue to test in the atmosphere while we abstain . |
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