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abutter en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /əˈbʌ.tɚ/ (US)

Etymology

From abut + -er.

Meanings

1. One who, or that which, abuts, specifically, the owner of a contiguous estate.
   • the abutters on a street or a river
   • 2015 April 23, James Kinsella writing in The Enterprise, Heritage Hearing Boils Over Residents continually brought up the aerial park, which had been quickly approved by the committee a year earlier after Heritage failed to notify abutters about the proposal. And Mr. Collins continually banged his gavel to cut them off.
   • But said corporation shall not acquire title to any land, nor enter upon any street, until all damages to the owners of land and abutters on any part of a street occupied, or to be occupied, by its structure have been paid or secured[…] 1886, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, ASME transactions, volume 7:

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