Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being repealed; revocable, especially by the power that enacted.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Capable of being repealed.

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  • adjective Capable of being repealed.

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Examples

  • The long-term fiscal deficit, after all, is itself a prediction about future events so the only thing Congress can possibly do to change it is to make repealable promises about what future policy will be.

    Matthew Yglesias » All Deficit Reduction Plans Involve Promises About Future Action 2010

  • The ugliness of the bill, and of its passage, means that some or all of it might be repealable, but far better not to make the tragic mistake in the first place.

    The ObamaCare Crossroads 2010

  • The ugliness of the bill, and of its passage, means that some or all of it might be repealable, but far better not to make the tragic mistake in the first place.

    The ObamaCare Crossroads 2010

  • The ugliness of the bill, and of its passage, means that some or all of it might be repealable, but far better not to make the tragic mistake in the first place.

    The ObamaCare Crossroads 2010

  • A non-repealable disaster cannot be allowed to take effect.

    Saul Segan: Attention, Our Leaders: You're Not Listening! 2009

  • Read the Chagos decision and the nature of the right to reside - it's not a "constitutional right", only an authorisation given by statute, repealable like everything else.

    Toying with the constitution 2009

  • For the first time in its history, it is confronted by a president, and just possibly by a working congressional majority, who are opposed to the program on ideological grounds, who view the New Deal as a repealable aberration in U.S. history, who would have voted against establishing the program had they been in Congress in 1935.

    January 2005 2005

  • For the first time in its history, it is confronted by a president, and just possibly by a working congressional majority, who are opposed to the program on ideological grounds, who view the New Deal as a repealable aberration in U.S. history, who would have voted against establishing the program had they been in Congress in 1935.

    Balkinization 2005

  • Q Today at the bombing hearing, Gorelick said that the presidential anti-terrorist plans may go too far, and said that you're going to delete various designations before the President will make a decision, and it's not repealable by, I guess, Congress or Justice --

    Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry ITY National Archives 1995

  • And it is clear that no pretence, drawn from the repealable nature of an English law, can avail to make it less, or other than treason, for a person outside of Parliament to propose the repeal of _this_ act as to any point affecting the existing royal family, or at least, so many of that family as are privileged persons known to the constitution.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 Various

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