Usually means: Revoking or withdrawing a law.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word repealing:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. repealing: Merriam-Webster
  2. repealing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. repealing: Vocabulary.com
  4. Repealing, repealing: Wordnik
  5. repealing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. repealing: Wiktionary
  7. Repealing, repealing: Dictionary.com
  8. repealing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Repealing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Repealing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. repealing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. repealing: FreeDictionary.org
  13. repealing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. repealing: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. repealing: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. repealing: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (repealing)

▸ noun:  The act by which something is repealed.

Similar:
revoke, rescind, countermand, annulment, annul, abrogation, reverse, overturn, lift, repealment, more...

Opposite:
enactment, implementation, establishment, adoption

Phrases:
repealing clause, Control Council Law No. 1 - Repealing of Nazi Laws, more...

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Similar:
revoke, rescind, countermand, annulment, annul, abrogation, reverse, overturn, lift, repealment, more...

Opposite:
enactment, implementation, establishment, adoption

Phrases:
repealing clause, Control Council Law No. 1 - Repealing of Nazi Laws, more...



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