Unlegislate

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To undo or annul legislation. ambitransitive

    "[…] legislated it into being, and having done that, I do not know how to unlegislate it. People talk about doing away with some of this legislation. The time is 25 years past when we could have done away with much of the labor legislation."

Synonyms

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delegislate

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"[…] legislated it into being, and having done that, I do not know how to unlegislate it. People talk about doing away with some of this legislation. The time is 25 years past when we could have done away with much of the labor legislation."

Etymology

From un- + legislate.

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