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repeal 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Verb
/riˈpēl/,
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repeals, 3rd person singular present; repealed, past participle; repealing, present participle; repealed, past tense;
  1. Revoke or annul (a law or congressional act)
    • - the legislation was repealed five months later
Noun
  1. The action of revoking or annulling a law or congressional act
    • - the House voted in favor of repeal
  1. abrogation: the act of abrogating; an official or legal cancellation
  2. revoke: cancel officially; "He revoked the ban on smoking"; "lift an embargo"; "vacate a death sentence"
  3. A repeal is the removal or reversal of a law. This is generally done when a law is no longer effective, or it is shown that a law is having far more negative consequences than were originally envisioned.
  4. The Repeal Association was an Irish mass membership political movement set up by Daniel O'Connell to campaign for a repeal of the Act of Union of 1800 between Great Britain and Ireland.
  5. An act or instance of repealing; To cancel, invalidate, annul
  6. (Repealed) When laws are repealed, they are no longer in force. Statutes and Regulations can be repealed; repealed and replaced by another Statute or Regulation with a different title; or renamed. ...
  7. (Repealing) Old word for “recalling” especially from exile
  8. A legal act by which the regulations, directives and decisions are formally repealed and their validity is terminated.
  9. The removal of an entire section, subsection, or paragraph of law from the Florida Statutes by the legislature. The repeal of a statute or statutes is accomplished by the insertion of a repealer clause in a bill that becomes a law.
  10. To abrogate (q.v.) or cancel legislation (q.v.) or a regulation (q.v.).
  11. to revoke or cancel a law, tax or duty by legislative enactment. See abrogate.
  12. The ANNULMENT or abrogation of a previously existing statute by the enactment of a later law that revokes the former law.
  13. To eliminate a law, or section of a law, by an act of the legislature.
  14. to reverse the sentence of exile. Two; Gentlemen of Verona
  15. To recall as a deed, will, law, or statute; to revoke; to abrogate by an authoritative act, or by the same power that made or enacted; as, the legislature may repeal a law enacted at a preceding session. ...
  16. To delete and make of no effect.
  17. Removal of an entire WAC section.
  18. To get rid of an existing law.
  19. To cancel or take back.