nullification – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
nullification
n.
act of nullifying; annulment; invalidation
Nullification
Nullification may refer to:
- Nullification (U.S. Constitution), the legal principle that any federal enactment which is not "made in Pursuance" of the Constitution under Article VI, Clause 2 is ipso facto null and void.
- Nullification Crisis, the 1832 confrontation between the U.S. government and South Carolina over the latter's attempt to nullify a federal law
- Jury nullification, a legal term that refers to a jury's ability to deliver a verdict knowingly in contradiction to written law
- Nullification, a form of body modification involving the voluntary removal of body parts
nullification
Noun
1. the states'-rights doctrine that a state can refuse to recognize or to enforce a federal law passed by the United States Congress
(hypernym) states' rights
(derivation) invalidate, annul, quash, void, avoid, nullify
2. the act of nullifying; making null and void; counteracting or overriding the effect or force of something
(synonym) override
(hypernym) change of state
(hyponym) cancellation
(derivation) invalidate, annul, quash, void, avoid, nullify
Nullification
(n.)
The act of nullifying; a rendering void and of no effect, or of no legal effect.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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nullification
Synonyms and related words:
abjuration, abjurement, abolishment, abolition, abrogation, absolute contradiction, annihilation, annulment, autarky, bimetallism, cancel, canceling, cancellation, cassation, choking, choking off, contradiction, contrary assertion, contravention, controversion, counterbalancing, countering, countermand, counterorder, crossing, defeasance, denial, deracination, disaffirmation, disallowance, disavowal, disclaimer, disclamation, disownment, disproof, economic self-sufficiency, elimination, eradication, extermination, extinction, extinguishment, extirpation, forswearing, free enterprise, free trade, frustration, gainsaying, governmentalism, impugnment, invalidation, laissez-faire, laissez-faireism, line, liquidation, localism, managed currency, negation, neutralization, noninterference, nonintervention, offsetting, party line, party principle, planned economy, policy, polity, position, price supports, protection, protectionism, public policy, pump-priming, purge, recall, recantation, refutation, renege, renunciation, repeal, repudiation, rescinding, rescindment, rescission, retractation, retraction, reversal, revocation, revoke, revokement, rooting out, sectionalism, setting aside, silencing, snuffing out, stifling, strangulation, suffocation, suppression, suspension, thwarting, undoing, uprooting, vacation, vacatur, vitiation, voidance, voiding, waiver, waiving, withdrawal, write-off
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
