adjective
- capable of being abdicated or given up
Usage: formal; rare
Examples
- The monarch’s power was considered abdicable under the new constitution.
- Legal scholars debated whether certain royal privileges were abdicable.
- The committee determined that the chairman’s authority was abdicable in emergency situations.
- Not all responsibilities of office are abdicable according to the bylaws.
- The treaty specified which territorial claims were abdicable through negotiation.