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• 韻: -eɪʃən

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capitulation (countable and uncountable, plural capitulations)

1. A reducing to heads or articles; a formal agreement.
2. The act of capitulating or surrendering to an enemy upon stipulated terms; the act of ceasing to resist an opponent or an unwelcome demand.
   • 1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 479:

     This humiliating capitulation of the young republic to the Germans was forced through by Lenin despite the infuriated opposition of his own party and nearly the whole of Russia.

3. The instrument containing the terms of an agreement or surrender.
4. An enumeration of the main parts of a subject.

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