The act or an instance of breaking off; discontinuance. 中止,中断中断的行为或实例;不连续
I left the office on acount of the discontinuance of the busine. 由于所服务的公司解散,只好去职。
I left the office on account of the discontinuance of the busine. 本人离职的原因,系因该公司即将倒闭。
discontinuance
[ noun ] the act of discontinuing or breaking off; an interruption (temporary or permanent) <noun.act>
Discontinuance \Dis`con*tin"u*ance\, n. 1. The act of discontinuing, or the state of being discontinued; want of continued connection or continuity; breaking off; cessation; interruption; as, a discontinuance of conversation or intercourse; discontinuance of a highway or of travel.
2. (Law) (a) A breaking off or interruption of an estate, which happened when an alienation was made by a tenant in tail, or other tenant, seized in right of another, of a larger estate than the tenant was entitled to, whereby the party ousted or injured was driven to his real action, and could not enter. This effect of such alienation is now obviated by statute in both England and the United States. (b) The termination of an action in practice by the voluntary act of the plaintiff; an entry on the record that the plaintiff discontinues his action. (c) That technical interruption of the proceedings in pleading in an action, which follows where a defendant does not answer the whole of the plaintiff's declaration, and the plaintiff omits to take judgment for the part unanswered. --Wharton's Law Dict. Burrill.
The discontinuance is part of an overall strategy to scrap sales events in favor of year-round value pricing, said William H. Whyte, an analyst with Stephens Inc. in Little Rock.
Prior to the discontinuance of the gas unit and the closing of Yankee's Boston-based Yankee Bank for Finance & Savings in October, the Yale E. Key unit accounted for about 10% of Yankee's annual revenues.
A pre-tax gain of $150 million from that sale was offset by the discontinuance of an anti-hypertensive drug, ongoing actions to improve efficiency and personnel restructuring programs, Weiss said.
Lockheed took a $9 million charge to cover anticipated losses from discontinuance of its shipbuilding operations.