Annulment - English meaning

noun

The action of abolishing a system, practice, or institution.

Usage examples:

The abolition of the death penalty

noun

The official ending of an activity or custom

noun

The complete ending of an activity or custom by law or official action

Usage examples:

The party supports the abolition of tax relief on pension funds.

noun

The repeal or abolition of a law, right, or agreement.

Usage examples:

The courts accept that abrogation of these privileges can only be made by statute but nonetheless t…

noun

The act of formally ending a law, agreement, or custom

Usage examples:

He filed for bankruptcy, which permitted the abrogation of all contracts., this is an abrogation of…

noun

The act of avoiding something that you should do

Usage examples:

This is an appalling abrogation of responsibility., she felt it would be an abrogation of her mater…

noun

The action of cancelling something.

Usage examples:

The show is sold out, but check for cancellations

noun

A situation in which something that has been arranged is stopped from happening

Usage examples:

Flight/train cancellations, please call and inform us as soon as possible if you need to make a can…

noun

The act of deciding that an organized event will not happen or of stopping an order for something

Usage examples:

Many trains are subject to cancellation because of the flooding., the theatre tickets were sold out…

verb

Revoke or cancel (an order).

Usage examples:

An order to arrest the strike leaders had been countermanded

noun

An order revoking a previous one.

Usage examples:

I forthwith mounted, and went off, lest i should receive a countermand

verb

Present participle of countermand

noun

The action of stopping a document, ticket, law, etc. from being legally or officially acceptable

Usage examples:

Premature disclosure of the test sites might lead to invalidation of the experiment., voting fraud …

verb

To cause an agreement or result to be no longer effective or consider it as not existing

Usage examples:

The referee nullified the goal.

verb

To make a legal agreement or decision no longer have any legal force

Usage examples:

The airline wants to nullify employees' contracts if no settlement is reached., a suit has been fil…

noun

The act of making a legal agreement or decision have no legal force

Usage examples:

Judges, and indeed lawyers, do not approve of the nullification of laws by juries., this was a case…

verb

Reject as invalid, especially by legal procedure.

Usage examples:

His conviction was quashed on appeal

verb

Present participle of quash

Usage examples:

His conviction was quashed in march 1986 after his counsel argued that the police evidence was all …

verb

Revoke or annul (a law or act of parliament).

Usage examples:

The legislation was repealed five months later

noun

The action of revoking or annulling a law or act of parliament.

Usage examples:

The house voted in favour of repeal

verb

(of a government) to make a law no longer a law

Usage examples:

Legislators repealed the sales tax., senators called for the law’s repeal.

verb

Revoke, cancel, or repeal (a law, order, or agreement).

Usage examples:

The government eventually rescinded the directive

noun

Annulment, repeal, abrogation; an instance of this.

noun

The revocation, cancellation, or repeal of a law, order, or agreement.

Usage examples:

The plaintiff agreed to the rescission of the agreement

noun

A change to an opposite direction, position, or course of action.

Usage examples:

A dramatic reversal in population decline in the alps

noun

The official cancellation of a decree, decision, or promise.

Usage examples:

For those who break the law, revocation of their liquor licence may result

noun

The act of stating officially that an agreement, right, or legal document is no longer effective

Usage examples:

Revocation of a licence/permit/pass violators of the law concerning firearms face fines and possibl…

verb

Declare that (something) is not valid or legally binding.

Usage examples:

The supreme court voided the statute

adjective

Not valid or legally binding.

Usage examples:

The contract was void

adjective

Completely empty.

Usage examples:

Void spaces surround the tanks

noun

The action of withdrawing something.

Usage examples:

The withdrawal of legal aid

noun

An act of taking something back, removing something, or moving something back

Usage examples:

[ c ] a troop withdrawal, [ c ] he had made several large withdrawals from his bank account (= he h…

noun

The act of taking money out of an account, or the amount of money taken

Usage examples:

The savings account only allows you to make three withdrawals a year., there's a cash withdrawal li…