rescind a decision

  • 1rescind a decision — cancel a decision, take back a decision …

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  • 2rescind — To cancel a contract because of misrepresentation, fraud, or illegal procedure. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary * * * rescind re‧scind [rɪˈsɪnd] verb [transitive] LAW to officially end a law, agreement, or decision made earlier: • The company has… …

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  • 3decision */*/*/ — UK [dɪˈsɪʒ(ə)n] / US noun Word forms decision : singular decision plural decisions 1) a) [countable] a choice that you make after thinking carefully make a decision: The committee should make its decision later this week. take a decision:… …

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  • 4rescind — re|scind [rıˈsınd] v [T] [Date: 1500 1600; : Latin; Origin: rescindere, from scindere to cut ] to officially end a law, or change a decision or agreement …

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  • 5rescind — verb (T) to officially end a law, decision, or agreement that has been made in the past …

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  • 6Calendar of 2000 — ▪ 2001 January We are fortunate to be alive at this moment in history. Never before has our nation enjoyed, at once, so much prosperity and social progress with so little internal crisis and so few external threats. Never before have we had such… …

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  • 7EMANCIPATION — Definitions and Dialectics Emancipation of the Jews in modern times stands alongside such other emancipatory movements as those of the serfs, women, slaves in the United States, and Catholics in England. The term emancipation is derived from… …

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  • 8United Nations — 1. an international organization, with headquarters in New York City, formed to promote international peace, security, and cooperation under the terms of the charter signed by 51 founding countries in San Francisco in 1945. Abbr.: UN Cf. General… …

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  • 9Pulitzer Prize for Music — The Pulitzer Prize for Music was first awarded in 1943. Joseph Pulitzer did not call for such a prize in his will, but had arranged for a music scholarship to be awarded each year. This was eventually converted into a full fledged prize: For a… …

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  • 10Ralph Shapey — (March 12, 1921 June 13, 2002) was an American composer and conductor. He is well known for his work as a composition professor at the University of Chicago, where he founded and directed the Contemporary Chamber Players. Shapey was a MacArthur… …

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