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Discover LudwigThe word "capitulation" is a correct and usable word in written English
It typically refers to either a formal agreement between parties to end a conflict or dispute, or to a situation in which someone gives up or yields to another's power or authority, often reluctantly. Example: After months of negotiations, the two competing companies agreed to a capitulation of their differences.
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The long-feared capitulation of American consumers has arrived.
"At the top of my list is the possible capitulation of the American consumer," he writes.
In the next few days a capitulation of sorts by Syriza must be the result.
The great capitulation, of course, is the relinquishing of youth's dreams.
Beyond the dividend tax rate, both parties are demanding the absolute capitulation of the other.
Following the capitulation of Paris, he was rearrested that October, once again for revolutionary politics.
The New Yorker, June 22, 1940 P. 11 Comment on the capitulation of France.
The capitulation of the American consumer, then, is coming at a particularly bad time.
On telly, there is less a clash of civilisations than a capitulation of civilisation.
The opposite of capitulation, of course, is investing at the height of a bubble.
And, in view of the capitulation of Glamorgan to Hampshire, an irrelevance.
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