A relinquishment is a piece of relinquished or abandoned land.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

But he relinquished his plan with rather bad grace.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Trapper Jim in the North Woods] Reference

She relinquished his hands, and turning toward the Abbe, said.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Like her, my mother relinquished custodial rights to my father.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call] Reference

Major immediately and gracefully relinquished the party leadership.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blair's Britain] Reference

The investment had not been relinquished for a moment during the day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

With her feeling good about herself, she relinquished the chair to me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Macphersons: Week 41: Chinese Torture-Sort Of] Reference

By declining, I relinquished any formal claim to ownership of his source code.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aaron Greenspan: The Legend of Mark Zuckerberg] Reference

The rabbi relinquished and told Mark that he can drive his car part of the way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yvonne Durant: One African-American Family's Journey to Judaism] Reference

Mugabe and his cronies never relinquished the commanding heights of the economy.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Africa Is Not Zimbabwe] Reference

But Western governments are concerned Mugabe hasn't relinquished enough control.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mugabe Doesn’t Call the Shots] Reference

With this sale, the Montauk had relinquished all claims to their ancestral lands.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Hamptons] Reference

Power is not relinquished easily; fear of the other is an enduring human handicap.    From Wordnik.com.  [SEPARATE, NOT EQUAL AT ALL] Reference

After a 47-year rule, Fidel Castro relinquished power for the first time on July 31.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Castro to Castro] Reference

A small but sustainable change is better than a large one relinquished after two weeks.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little More Willpower Can Change Your Life] Reference

He then proceeded to march his team into the end zone for a lead it never relinquished.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starr Gazing: Belichick's Boldness Belies His Blather] Reference

She wasn't a smoker but joined him just in relief: he'd not relinquished this bad habit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Books: “Nothing Right”] Reference

Men have never relinquished their youth lightly, so the sales job shouldn't be too difficult.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rx vs. XXX] Reference

Gold had relinquished some of its gains, however, as stocks posted only moderate losses, said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gold Ends at Six-Week High] Reference

He quashed speculation that he had relinquished his lucrative image rights as part of the deal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Craig Bellamy in debt to Roberto Mancini after fairytale Cardiff move] Reference

Eisner has not relinquished any control, nor signaled internally or externally that he ever will.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clash Of The Titans?] Reference

Most unsettling, it claims Kosovo as a "constituent part of Serbia's territory," never to be relinquished.    From Wordnik.com.  [Opinion: Dealing With Serbia] Reference

Which leads us to our announcement: we called the Park Service today and officially relinquished the date.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woody Tasch: Earth to Stewart and Colbert: 'Tea Party out, Eat Party in!'] Reference

Caught in the middle was General Clark, who last week relinquished his post in a controversial early retirement.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kosovo Cover-Up] Reference

The Chinese police the Taiwan Strait, and Moscow never relinquished the Soviet sphere of influence in the Caucasus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crafty Superpower] Reference

He never stopped resisting, and "he never relinquished his role as a reporter," former hostage David Jacobsen wrote.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Terry Survived] Reference

The SEC alleges the brothers never relinquished control and dictated trading and voting instructions to intermediaries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wyly Brothers Face SEC Fraud Charges] Reference

All we need to do is to understand that they have to be reapplied to changing circumstances, not relinquished as redundant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tony Blair Takes on the World] Reference

Which is what happened late in the second quarter of the Broncos-Patriots game and gave Denver a lead it never relinquished.    From Wordnik.com.  [Play it Again, NFL] Reference

She had relinquished the same title 15 months earlier in May 2009 at Prime Therapeutics LLC, a pharmacy-benefit management concern.    From Wordnik.com.  [Should You Resign To Job Hunt?] Reference

Potash Corp. began in 1975 as a state-owned producer, although the government fully relinquished its interest in the company in 1990.    From Wordnik.com.  [BHP Faces Canadian Headwinds in Potash Bid] Reference

By her own account, she wept with joy when she crossed one of history's most inhumane borders shortly after it had relinquished its horror.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call: The Power Of Rice] Reference