repeal
verb (used with object)
to revoke or withdraw formally or officially.
repealable
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a word derived from
repeal.
Example Sentences
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The ugliness of the bill, and of its passage, means that some or all of it might be repealable, but far better not to make the tragic mistake in the first place.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2017
Hence all legislation should be repealable, and those instruments are but laws.
From Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters by George Fitzhugh
Furthermore, exemptions from taxation have in certain cases been treated as gratuities repealable at will, even when conferred by specific legislative enactments.
From The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952 by Edward Samuel Corwin
The Renunciation Act was repealable at pleasure, he found, and no renunciation save in name.
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield
All acts of legislatures, granting to railroad or other corporations, rights belonging to the whole people, are subject to the control of future legislatures, and are repealable.
From Monopolies and the People by D. C. Cloud
