Disapply

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To decline to apply a rule or law that previously applied transitive

    "If we were to accept Amendment No. 144D, the effect of that would be to disapply the definition from properties that are not yet on the market."

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"If we were to accept Amendment No. 144D, the effect of that would be to disapply the definition from properties that are not yet on the market."

Etymology

From dis- + apply.

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