The phrase "abandoning work" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the act of leaving a job or task unfinished or ceasing to engage in work-related activities.
Example: "After years of dedication, he found himself abandoning work due to burnout and stress."
Alternatives: "quitting work" or "leaving work".
In his statement read out over Valencia radios, General Bosch banned all strikes and lock-outs and said abandoning work would be considered sedition.
For the first time since abandoning work on the Rena on Monday night because of stormy weather, salvage crews boarded the vessel and spent more than four hours assessing it.
After abandoning work on The Circus, Ray returned to memories of his childhood experiences, with a cycle of three linked works, shown at the Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro.
We ought to stop spending money we don't have, he told cheering Iowa fairgoers, before repeating a tendentious Romney campaign claim that new federal rules offering states flexibility as they run welfare-to-work schemes amount to Mr Obama abandoning work requirements first introduced under Bill Clinton.
Some residents have accused the agency of abandoning work to protect homes from flooding.
It reflects not so much disability as behavioural response to impairment since, except in extreme cases, there is a degree of choice in either continuing or abandoning work when affected by headache [17].
And many others have abandoned work altogether, as jobs are seldom advertised with flexible working options.
Back home, the Siegels suffered cash-flow problems which forced them to abandon work on Versailles.
(West briefly abandoned work on his dissertation to write a novel, which was never published).
Iran has consistently maintained that it abandoned work on this advanced technology, called the P-2 centrifuge, three years ago.
Amy Winehouse has abandoned work on the theme song for the forthcoming James Bond film, "Quantum of Solace," The Associated Press reported.
