Rerepeal

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An instance of rerepealing.

    "I do not think we can cite anything that has been done in the fiscal area to try to either stimulate the economy or slow it down that has had more effect than the enactment, the repeal, the reenactment, the rerepeal, the reenactment of the investment tax credit."

Verb
  1. 1
    To repeal again after reinstating.

    "As the Noble Lord on the woolsack thinks it would be better not to rerepeal the whole of the Act of the 13th George II., I now propose only to repeal the two clauses which have given power to informers to bring vexatious and frivolous suits."

Example

More examples

"As the Noble Lord on the woolsack thinks it would be better not to rerepeal the whole of the Act of the 13th George II., I now propose only to repeal the two clauses which have given power to informers to bring vexatious and frivolous suits."

Etymology

From re- + repeal.

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