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Definition of rescission noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

rescission

noun
 
/rɪˈsɪʒn/
 
/rɪˈsɪʒn/
 (formal)
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  1. the act of cancelling or ending a law, an order, or an agreementTopics Discussion and agreementc2
    Word Originmid 17th cent.: from late Latin rescissio(n-), from resciss-, ‘split again’, from the verb rescindere, from re- (expressing intensive force) + scindere ‘to divide, split’.
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