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An act of rescinding: removing, taking away, or taking back.countableuncountable
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The undoing of a contract; repeal.countableuncountable
- The House narrowly approved a rescissions package from the White House that aims to cancel billions in unspent funds from the prior fiscal year, much of which would not have been spent otherwise.
- But the rescission of the spending-freeze memo, which followed a White House effort to respond to confusion about the initial memo, raises questions about how much [President Trump and his team] learned from the experience of 2017.
syn. rescindment · rescinsion