The phrase "abdication of duty" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a failure to fulfill one's responsibilities or obligations, often in a formal or serious context.
Example: "The manager's abdication of duty led to a decline in team morale and productivity."
Alternatives: "neglect of responsibility" or "failure to act".
"The unprecedented grid failure is a result of negligence, incompetence and complete abdication of duty on the part of the central government," Mr. Javadekar said.
"Removing Medicare from the accountability of Congress and the president amounts to an abdication of duty that would risk the health care of millions of America's seniors".
If Pearl is an irresponsible mother — and that seems beyond dispute — her abdication of duty made a terrible sense to me, given her keen understanding of the obligation.
That's not entirely true and shouldn't be taken as an abdication of duty: his team took the Super Cup off Barcelona last season, for a start, and Athletic pushed them right back on Sunday, taking them to the wire.
At a hearing before all five justices, the lawyer, Steven Schulman, said the trial court made several errors in its decision in August in failing to conclude that the board acted with gross negligence or that its abdication of duty was "conscious and in bad faith".
Whether the appointment of a special prosecutor in that case was an abdication of duty, as Ms. Rice contends, or what Mr. Dillon calls a routine recusal to avoid arousing public suspicion of his motives, it underscored an unpleasant truth: that Nassau's chief law-enforcement official is unnecessarily burdened by a crusade that has nothing to do with his job.
It added that an inquiry would determine the "reasons for the complete abdication of responsibility and duty of care that was owed to Carl".
Anything else would be an abdication of our duty as MPs.
To turn what is a matter of civil rights over to voters would be an abdication of lawmakers' duty.
That's a total abdication of her duty as a member of Congress, but that's par for the course.
If we instead work to make it harder for them, this is an absolute abdication of our duty.
