单词 | sunset law |
释义 | sunset law in British English (ˈsʌnˌsɛt lɔː) noun law, US and Canadian a law that will automatically be terminated after a fixed period unless it is extended sunset law in American Englishnoun a statute that includes provision for automatic termination of a government program, agency, etc., at the end of a specified time period unless it is reauthorized by the legislature Word origin [1975–80, Amer.]This word is first recorded in the period 1975–80. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: bench press, gravitational lens, hybridoma, noogie, retrovirus |
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