Abstention (disambiguation)
- Abstention (disambiguation)
Abstention or abstaining is refusing to vote in an election or in a parliamentary vote. It may also refer to:
*abstentionism, standing for election to an assembly while boycotting the assembly itself
*abstention doctrine, applied by a court refusing to hear a case which ought to be heard by a different court
*Operation Abstention, code name of the British invasion of the Italian island of Kastelorizo, off Turkey, during World War II, in February 1941.
*abstinence, voluntary restraint from a bodily pleasure, such as alcohol or sexual intercourse
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