Rescind Definition

rĭ-sĭnd
rescinded, rescinding, rescinds
verb
rescinded, rescinding, rescinds
To revoke, repeal, or cancel (a law, order, etc.)
Webster's New World

To cancel a contract, whether unilaterally or by mutual agreement and restore both parties to status quo ante (the positions they would have been in if the contract had never existed). See also rescission.

Webster's New World Law

To repeal, annul, or declare void; to take (something such as a rule or contract) out of effect.

The agency will rescind the policy because many people are dissatisfied with it.
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Origin of Rescind

  • Latin rescindere re- re- scindere to split skei- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From the Latin rescindō (“I cut back"), from re- (“back") + scindō (“I cut").

    From Wiktionary

Rescind Sentence Examples

  • As a preliminary to negotiation, the government was required to rescind all the obnoxious measures.

  • Please rescind payment to ABC Bank, 1234 Main Street, Anytown, CA 90210.

  • In spite of the problematic timing, the British did not rescind their invitation.

  • For more than a year all efforts - headed by the poet Whittier - to rescind that censure were without avail, but early in 1874 it was annulled.

  • This year, we will completely rescind the agricultural tax throughout the country, a tax that China has been collecting for 2,600 years.

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Words Starting With

RRERES

Words Ending With

DNDIND

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Words Starting With R and Ending With D

Starts With R & Ends With DStarts With RE & Ends With DStarts With R & Ends With ND

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7 Letter Words7 Letter Words Starting With R7 Letter Words Ending With D