Repeal vs Cancellation - What's the difference?
repeal | cancellation |
To cancel, invalidate, annul.
To recall; to summon (a person) again.
* Shakespeare
To suppress; to repel.
* Milton
The act, process, or result of cancelling; as, the cancellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.
(mathematics) The operation of striking out common factors, in both the dividend and divisor.
(philately) A postmark that marks a postage stamp so as to prevent its reuse.
(legal) In United States intellectual property law, a proceeding in which an interested party seeks to cancel the registration of a trademark or patent.
As nouns the difference between repeal and cancellation
is that repeal is an act or instance of repealing while cancellation is the act, process, or result of cancelling; as, the cancellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.As a verb repeal
is to cancel, invalidate, annul.repeal
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Verb
(en verb)- to repeal a law
- The banished Bolingbroke repeals himself, / And with uplifted arms is safe arrived.
- Whence Adam soon repealed / The doubts that in his heart arose.