repudiation

repudiate | American Dictionary

repudiate
verb[ T ]
 fmlus/rɪˈpjud·iˌeɪt/
to refuse to accept or obey something or someone; reject:
The evidence presented at the trial has since been repudiated.

repudiation

noun[ U ]us/rɪˌpjud·iˈeɪ·ʃən/
The election results were a repudiation of the generals.

repudiate | Business English

repudiate
verb[ T ]
uk /rɪˈpjuːdieɪt/us
LAW
to decide that an agreement is no longer effective and that you will not do what it says you must do:
repudiate a contract/agreementFailure to deliver on time will entitle the buyer to repudiate the contract.
FINANCE
to decide that you will not pay back money that you owe:
The Soviet Union repudiated its debt after the 1917 Revolution.

repudiation

noun[ C or U ]
Where the buyer accepts the seller's breach as a repudiation of the contract, the buyer will be entitled to damages.

Examples of repudiate

repudiate
Nevertheless, in contrast to the 1920s, the employers refrained from direct attacks on the union, and the framework of collective bargaining was never repudiated.
Silently, they repudiated humanity's lingering claims to special privilege inside a universe no longer ordered by theology.
This rule, long enshrined in civil law, was repudiated only in recent times.
No wonder the church ignored, or even repudiated, its immemorial condemnation of usurious finance.
Some investors had repudiated their obligations on the grounds that they were dealing with brokers acting as 'jobbers' or principals, not acting as agents.
Although such ideas have since been repudiated within archaeology, in disciplines further afield, the damage was done.
Soames writes that the proponents of logical positivism repudiated it.
Relations within the community as well as with the guerrillas were important in order to bolster or repudiate accusations.
We know that "realists" would applaud it, and "idealists" would repudiate it.
There is little we can repudiate in his story.
He ' alternated or modulated between them depending on the immediate theological and cultural context of his writing, but never repudiated either one ' (p. 11).
His judgment of the novel as a genre (and detective fiction by implication) too quickly repudiates its capacities for exposure, resistance, and transgression.
Any concept of a ' ' real ' ' centred self is repudiated; the self is a significant absence approximated through simulations, the constructions of our spectators.
Ridgeologists might understandably be concerned about drawing legal attention to the fact that this unparalleled credibility was won using a methodology they now repudiate.
The adult's preference for women is especially salient and serves to repudiate the child's selection of woman.
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