withdrawal
pronunciation
How to pronounce withdrawal in British English:
UK [wɪðˈdrɔːəl]
How to pronounce withdrawal in American English:
US [wɪðˈdrɔːəl]
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- Noun:
- a retraction of a previously held position
- the act of taking out money or other capital
- the act of withdrawing
- avoiding emotional involvement
- formal separation from an alliance or federation
- the termination of drug taking
Word Origin
- withdrawal (n.)
- 1820s, "act of taking back," also "retraction of a statement," from withdraw + -al (2). Earlier words in the same sense were withdrawment (1640s); withdraught (mid-14c.). Meaning "removal of money from a bank, etc." is from 1861; psychological sense is from 1916; meaning "physical reaction to the cessation of an addictive substance" is from 1929 (with an isolated use from 1897; withdrawal symptom is from 1910). As a synonym for coitus interruptus from 1889.
Example
- 1. The firm is benefiting from the withdrawal of competitors from the british market .
- 2. This will help fill the gap left by the withdrawal of foreign banks and strains in global capital markets .
- 3. He has cited as examples the removal of electricity subsidiesand the withdrawal of federal police from hospitals and schools .
- 4. None is focusing on his withdrawal from iraq or his timetable for exiting afghanistan or his refusal to bomb iran .
- 5. It was their sudden withdrawal that caused the market in asset backed commercial paper ( abcp ) to seize up .