repudiate

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So at that point you repudiate the debt again, this time to the collections agency.

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Quick take

cast off; "She renounced her husband"; "The parents repudiated their son"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of repudiate gathered in one view.

verb

cast off; "She renounced her husband"; "The parents repudiated their son"

verb

refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid; "The woman repudiated the divorce settlement"

verb

refuse to recognize or pay; "repudiate a debt"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for repudiate.

verb

cast off; "She renounced her husband"; "The parents repudiated their son"

verb

refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid; "The woman repudiated the divorce settlement"

verb

refuse to recognize or pay; "repudiate a debt"

verb

reject as untrue, unfounded, or unjust; "She repudiated the accusations"

Example sentences

So at that point you repudiate the debt again, this time to the collections agency.

"You cannot get away from a contract by simply not reading it - many people would repudiate their contracts if this was the case.

You cannot get away from a contract by simply not reading it - many people would repudiate their contracts if this was the case.

Nor should we excuse away an obligation to repudiate harassment when we encounter it.

The minor is the one that can repudiate the contract before the age of majority to void it, but otherwise, it's a perfectly valid contract.

Oh, so Minnesota doesn't want to repudiate the entirety of the 1st amendment to the constitution?

Texas is the only state that joined by treaty as an independent county, so it seems reasonable that Texas could maybe repudiate that treaty and leave.

No. When you publicly take an abhorrent position, it is normally necessary to specifically repudiate that position to remove the doubt in people's minds.

Don't repudiate something meant to be flashy for being uninformative, nor something meant to be informative for being insufficiently flashy.

Stay at a healthy weight by controlling caloric consumption [2].The article mentions such scientific evidence as "nearly two-thirds of the studies cited there to repudiate Lustig's views were funded by Coca-Cola.

But think how hard it is to process creative discussion on your feet, particularly when arguments arise that repudiate your position, and you have no way to validate the new arguments or to research them prior to the vote.

It is the process that is broken: votes should not happen immediately after the comment period, but after a period of evaluation of the comments; and then the governance body should have to repudiate the comments or at least to reply to them.