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repeal noun /rɪˈpiːl/ /rɪˈpiːl/ [uncountable] jump to other results - the act of repealing a law (= making it no longer a law)
- the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846
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repeal verb /rɪˈpiːl/ /rɪˈpiːl/ jump to other results - repeal something if a government or other group or person with authority repeals a law, that law no longer has any legal force
- The committee does not have the power to repeal the ban.
Topics Politicsc2Oxford Collocations DictionaryRepeal is used with these nouns as the object: See full entry Word Originlate Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French repeler, from Old French re- (expressing reversal) + apeler ‘to call, appeal’.
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