What (who) is Abut - definition
LAND AND BUILDINGS TOGETHER CONSIDERED AS A PROPERTY
Abut; Premises registration
abut
[?'b?t]
¦ verb (abuts, abutting, abutted)
1. (of land or a building) be next to or share a boundary with.
2. touch or lean on.
Origin
ME: from Anglo-Latin abuttare, from a- 'to' + OFr. but 'end'; sense 2 is from OFr. abouter, from a- + bouter (see butt1).
abut
v. (D; intr.) to abut against, on, upon
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Premises
Premises are land and buildings together considered as a property. This usage arose from property owners finding the word in their title deeds, where it originally correctly meant "the aforementioned; what this document is about", from Latin prae-missus = "placed before".
In this sense, the word is always used in the plural, but singular in construction. Note that a single house or a single other piece of property is "premises", not a "premise", although the word "premises" is plural in form; e.g. "The equipment is on the customer's premises", never "The equipment is on the customer's premise".
Pronunciation examples for Abut
1. we think abut in many parts of the world there's a digital divide, that's is a common term
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Examples of use of Abut
1. Mills are seldom over–run by the streams they abut.
2. The Palestinian–controlled West Bank and disputed Golan Heights territory also abut the kingdom.
3. Local politicians, especially in the many municipalities that abut Monterrey, say they feel like targets.
4. Many of Jerusalem‘s Jews and Arabs live in neighborhoods that abut each other.
5. Ms Bech, 25, said last week that she would not talk abut the case.