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  • adjective That can be redefined.

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redefine +‎ -able

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  • Most of the differences in tax and spending policy occur in the definitions, what is income, what is a benefit, what is a cost, what is fair, and what is socially desirable, not in the guise of outright advantage, even though most such desires for power are redefinable in terms of such basics.

    Constitution of Surveillance?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Mark, but marriage is a social institution and is not endlessly redefinable by each particular individual who enters the social institution.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Iowa state trial court judge rules for gay marriage: 2007

  • Mark, but marriage is a social institution and is not endlessly redefinable by each particular individual who enters the social institution.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Iowa state trial court judge rules for gay marriage: 2007

  • By treating the rhetorical "war on terror", infinitely redefinable, as a real war with war's legal consequences, the Bush administration has entered the 1984 terrain of totalitarianism.

    Hullabaloo 2005

  • By treating the rhetorical "war on terror", infinitely redefinable, as a real war with war's legal consequences, the Bush administration has entered the 1984 terrain of totalitarianism.

    Hullabaloo 2005

  • By treating the rhetorical "war on terror", infinitely redefinable, as a real war with war's legal consequences, the Bush administration has entered the 1984 terrain of totalitarianism.

    Hullabaloo 2005

  • They were cart paths and nothing more, and seemed as if they were often and easily redefinable.

    Immortalis Salvatore, R. A., 1959- 2003

  • Arc will have syntax, but it will translate in a clearly defined (and in fact, redefinable) way into underlying s-expressions.

    Arc at 3 Weeks 2001

  • DRAM Digital record announcement machine DRAM Dynamic ram DRCS Dynamically redefinable character sets DRHR Division of revenue hourly DRMU Digital remote measurement unit DRTLRT Dial repe tie lindal repeatie t DRU DACS remote unit DS Data set DS Digital carrier span DS Digital signal DS Direct signal DS-0 Digital signal 0 (one channel at 64 kb/s)

    Tricks of the Trade Issue #6 by Hype (Christmas Edition) 1996

  • If you do not give any PUBLIC directives in your program, A86 will use every relocatable label and variable name in your program, except local labels (the redefinable labels consisting of a letter followed by digits: L7, M1, Q234, etc.).

    DOCUMENTATION: A86 Assembler Package by Eric Isaacson Chapter 10 1990

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