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unrepeal en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + repeal.

Meanings

1. To reverse a repeal; to restore a ruling or law that was repealed.
   • Mr. Chairman, the Stark amendment, as I see it, is a last-ditch effort to resurrect the cat, the catastrophic care bill, and to unrepeal the repeal which we just passed. 1989, Congressional Record:
   • But the one important reform would be to unrepeal Glass Steagall. 2010, Paul Christopherson, Pants on Fire: Cutting through the Biggest Lies of Twenty-first-Century American Plutocracy, →ISBN:
   • Therefore it would unrepeal its repeal in the EU Withdrawal Bill. 2017 December 12, Faisal Islam, “Government scrambles to avoid defeat on EU Withdrawal bill”, in Sky News:

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