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rescission

[ ri-sizh-uhn ]

noun

  1. the act of rescinding.


rescission

/ ɪˈɪə /

noun

  1. the act of rescinding
  2. law the right to have a contract set aside if it has been entered into mistakenly, as a result of misrepresentation, undue influence, etc
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Other 51Թ Forms

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of rescission1

1605–15; < Late Latin ō- (stem of ō ) a making void, rescinding, equivalent to resciss ( us ) (past participle of rescindere to rescind, equivalent to re- re- + scid-, variant stem of scindere to cleave, tear in two + -tus past participle suffix, with dt > ss ) + -ō- -ion
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Lawyers, however, convinced her to wait for a federal judge's determination of whether the DHS rescission was lawful.

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"This is NOT a rescission of the federal funding freeze. It is simply a rescission of the OMB memo," she said.

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“DOGE will present this list of regulations to President Trump, who can, by executive action, immediately pause the enforcement of those regulations and initiate the process for review and rescission,” they wrote.

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The full board took up her case on Monday and later voted to order a rescission hearing, referring the case to a lower panel to consider whether to rescind the earlier recommendation.

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Under a 1974 law, appropriated funds must be made available for their intended purpose unless a rescission is approved by both the Senate and House of Representatives.

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