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Examples of rescission in a Sentence
the judge ruled that the town's rescission of the contract was justified due the contractor's repeated failures to meet its obligations
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See full list Chef Nikki Tran emailed Eater Houston upon the rescission of her restaurant's Bib Gourmand award.
—Alexis Simmerman, Austin American-Statesman, 15 Nov. 2024
Trump publicly flirted with using a related tool, called rescission, to unilaterally cut foreign aid in 2019.
—Dylan Matthews, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
As soon as the decree of rescission was announced in Chile and before the delivery of the ultimatum by the Chilean Chargé, the occupation of the Bolivian littoral was ordered and immediately accomplished without firing a shot.
—Edwin M. Borchard, Foreign Affairs, 7 Oct. 2011
The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office reported in February that a $5 billion rescission from the IRS would reduce revenues by $5.2 billion over the next 10 years and increase the cumulative deficit by $0.2 billion.
—Fatima Hussein, Fortune, 15 Apr. 2024
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Word History
Etymology
borrowed from Middle French & Latin; Middle French rescision, borrowed from Latin rescissiōn- rescissiō, from *rescid-, variant stem of rescindere "to remove or lay bare by hewing and cutting, cancel, rescind" + -tiōn-, -tiō, suffix of verbal action
First Known Use
1594, in the meaning defined above
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“Rescission.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rescission. Accessed 13 Dec. 2024.
Kids Definition
rescission
noun
re·scis·sion
ri-ˈsizh-ən
: an act of rescinding
Legal Definition
rescission
noun
re·scis·sion
ri-ˈsi-zhən
: the act, process, or fact of rescinding especially a contract
specifically
: the equitable judicial remedy of rescinding a contract in a suit brought by one of the parties compare reformation
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