repudiation

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  1. noun The act of repudiating or the state of being repudiated.
  2. noun The refusal, especially by public authorities, to acknowledge a contract or debt.

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  • The Democrats lost control of Congress that November in a historic repudiation, largely because of public disillusionment with their policy failures. —  Home | The New York Observer
  • The company's guilty plea and payment of $1.7 billion to settle charges including the overbilling of state and federal health programs was taken as a repudiation of Mr. Scott's relentless bottom-line approach ... —  Blog entry
  • There's also a belief that the Workgroup BI model amounts to a repudiation -- in practice, if not in principal -- of much of what BI and data management professionals have struggled to achieve over the last 15 years. —  Enterprise Strategies
  • The company's guilty plea and payment of $1.7 billion to settle charges including the overbilling of state and federal health programs was taken as a repudiation of Mr. Scott's relentless bottom-line approach. —  The Seminal :: Independent Media And Politics
  • Slide 11: The obvious conclusion  Non-repudiation is not a magic bullet for e-commerce  Unfortunately, few legislators or banks have yet realised this ... —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
 

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  1. from Old French repudiation, French repudiation =Spanish repudiacion, from Latin repudiatio (n-), repudiation, from repudiare, repudiate: see repudiate.
 

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/rəpjudɪˈeɪʃən/
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