UK Accounting Glossary
Noun: the action of being abated or abating: subsiding or ending.
Law: the removal or reduction of a nuisance.
To reduce the intensity, amount or degree of a given activity.
Abatement is also used to describe the reduction of the emission of pollutants in environmental economics.
Technical abatement is a term used when referring to measures which involve production activities of businesses, for example, an introduction of a new, or an amendment to an existing process or technology.
Behavioural abatement is the changing of behaviours of consumers, or the changing of lifestyles in the customers.
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