单词 | repudiatory |
释义 | repudiatoryadj. Of, relating to, or favouring repudiation, esp. of a debt or other obligation. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > payment > payment of debt > [adjective] > refusing to acknowledge or pay public debt repudiatory1846 repudiationist1896 the mind > language > speech > agreement > observance > non-observance or breach > [adjective] unordaina1425 vow-breaking1533 vowless1620 violatory1687 violative1745 repudiatory1846 lapsed1959 1846 R. Ford Gatherings from Spain iv. 38 In spite of ingenious conversions, fundings of interest, coupons—some active, some passive, and other repudiatory terms and tenses, the present excepted—the thimblerig is always the same. 1882 American 4 67 They refused to admit..a delegate who was of known repudiatory principles. 1936 Pennsylvania State Rep. 323 512 It was the practice by the states, at that time of grave economic distress, of enacting repudiatory legislation. 1972 Mod. Law Rev. 35 i. 44 It also seems to exclude the possibility of recovery on repudiatory breach generally. 1981 Times 25 Feb. 26/1 The common law rule that a contract is determined by the acceptance of repudiatory conduct and not by the repudiatory conduct itself applies to contracts of employment. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1846 |
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