desertion

It is a form of desertion, or dereliction of duty.

In the fallout of the 2007-8 Great Recession, the entire city saw huge desertion.

In ancient Greek army, they had a death penalty for losing your shield, the same as desertion.

But your friends are dead or gone, and desertion or rebellion are a certain route to execution.

All he could do was highlight the problem of desertion and point out the consequences of their actions.

If so, a sudden discovery of the truth by the mainstream might lead to a desertion of this market.

> Is it legal in some countries to leave your job for the competition?It's called desertion and threatened with the death penalty.

I'm wondering what kept people playing ... sounds like a recipe for mass desertion, unless they were paid / forced to play / something else.

I remember Facebook desertion not being much more than a statistic even a year ago, now it's pretty common to encounter people that don't have an account there anymore.

Pain could but bring from all its evil store, The close of pain: hate's venom could but kill; Repulse, defeat, desertion, could no more, Let me have lived my life, not cowered until The unhindered and unchastened hour was here.

In a civil-war scenario, that level of destruction would be suicide for a government's economic and international survival and cause mass military desertion/defection.

Given that licensing and pricing is a critical aspect of software use and can easily make the difference between user satisfaction and user desertion to a competitor's product, I've always felt this oversight hurt Microsoft far more than they imagine.