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Definition: Renege On |
Renege OnVerb1. Fail to fulfill a promise or obligation; "She backed out of her promise". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Renege OnSynonyms: go back on (v), renege (v), renegue on (v). (additional references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Russia | Churches have been targeted for ostensible criminal investigations, landlords have been pressured to renege on contracts, and in some cases, the security services may have influenced the Ministry of Justice in registration applications. (references) |
Economic History | Nigeria | Over 100 persons were killed in riots before Babangida agreed to hand over power to an "interim government" on August 27, 1993. Babangida then had second thoughts and attempted to renege on his decision, but without popular and military support he was forced to hand over to Ernest Shonekan, a nonpartisan businessman. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-g-n-n-o-r" | |
-2 letters: renege. | |
-3 letters: genre, genro, goner, green. | |
-4 letters: eger, ergo, erne, gene, goer, gone, gore, gree, nene, neon, none, ogee, ogre. | |
-5 letters: ego, eng, eon, ere, erg, ern, gee, gen, gor, nee, nog, nor, one, ore, ree, reg, roe. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-g-n-n-o-r" | |
+1 letter: nondegree. | |
+2 letters: greenstone. | |
+3 letters: bioengineer, convergence, engorgement, greenstones, overweening. | |
+4 letters: androgeneses, bioengineers, convergences, degeneration, engorgements, generousness, gentleperson, nonemergency, orienteering, overengineer, overlengthen, pregnenolone, regeneration, sonneteering. | |
+5 letters: bioengineered, convergencies, degenerations, encouragement, foreignnesses, frontogeneses, gentlepersons, governmentese, nondegenerate, nonsegregated, organogeneses, orienteerings, overengineers, overextending, overlengthens, overweeningly, pregnenolones, regenerations, sonneteerings. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 6E 65 67 65 4F 6E |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01101110 01100101 01100111 01100101 00100000 01001111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e n e g e   O n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 006E 0065 0067 0065 004F 006E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)52718071737124980 |
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