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Definition: Rescission |
RescissionNoun1. The act of rescinding; (law) the cancellation of a contract and the return of the parties to the positions they would have had if the contract had not been made; recission may be brought about by decree or by mutual consent. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: RescissionSynonym: recission (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Abrogation | Noun: abrogation, annulment, nullification, recision; vacatur; canceling; Verb: cancel; revocation, revokement; repeal, rescission, defeasance. |
Disjunction | Division, subdivision, rupture; compartition ; dismemberment, dislocation; luxation; severance, disseverance; scission; rescission, abscission; laceration, dilaceration; disruption, abruption; avulsion, divulsion; section, resection, cleavage; fission; partibility, separability. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Rescission |
| English words defined with "rescission": Rescindment. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "rescission": rescission of contract, right of rescission. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Various grounds for rescission of the contract need to be examined and reflected in the contract. (references) | |
The provisions on the distributorship contract establishing the term of an agreement giving the granting party the unilateral right of rescission are inapplicable under the law. The distributorship contract can only be rescinded by reason of just cause as defined by law or by amicable agreement among the parties. (references) | ||
Economic History | Ukraine | Other complaints include overzealous tax collection, sudden and drastic tariff hikes, unilateral rescission and abrogation of valid contracts and licenses, and outright corruption. (references) |
Switzerland | The members of the Swiss Association of Direct Marketing Companies (VDF) are obliged to follow a so-called code of honor, which also regulates the rescission of a contract within seven days that is required by Swiss law. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Rescission" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.41% of the time. "Rescission" is used about 63 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.41% | 62 | 42,755 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.59% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 63 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
rescission right | 15 |
rescission | 5 |
period rescission | 3 |
contract rescission | 3 |
notice rescission | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "rescission"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shfuqizim (abrogation, invalidity, negation, nullification, repeal), anulim (abolishment, annulment, avoidance, cancel, cancellation, cassation, Defeasance, defeat, invalidation, nullification, recall, repeal, reversal, revocation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فسخ (abrogate, annul, annulment, countermand, defeat, invalidate, invalidation, negate, nullify, repeal, repudiation, rescind, revocation, revoke, void), إلغاء (abolishment, abolition, annihilation, avoidance, cancel, cancellation, nullification, recall, repeal, revocation), إبطال (abolition, abrogation, annihilation, annulment, avoidance, cancellation, circumvention, counteraction, defeasance, frustration, invalidation, negation, nullification, repeal, reversal, revocation, vitiation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | отменяне (abatement, annulment, cancellation, recall, recision, repeal, retractation, reversal, revocation, undoing, withdrawal), анулиране (abatement, abrogation, annulment, cancellation, cassation, defeat, invalidation, nullification, recision, repeal, retraction, voidance, write off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | '回. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zrušení (abolishment, abolition, abrogation, annulment, breach, cancellation, diriment, dissolution, recall, renunciation, repeal, withdrawal), odvolání (abolishment, abolition, abrogation, appeal, countermand, recall, recantation, remedy, repeal, retractility, retraction, revocation, withdrawal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | opheffing (abrogation, cancellation, repeal, show of hands, suspension, suspension of staff, upheaval, uplift, uplift (of the earth's crust)), ontbindende handeling (resolutory action), intrekking (abrogation, cancellation, repeal, revocation), afschaffing (abolishment, abolition, abrogation, cancellation, repeal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | فسخ(حق.), ابطال (Disproof, Nullification, Revoke, Waiver). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | purkamistoimi (resolutory action), kumoaminen (abort, abrogation, annulment, cancellation, erasure, repeal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | abrogation (repeal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Rücktritt (abdication, free and voluntary desistance, recession, resignation, resigns, retirement, withdrawal), Aufhebung (abolishment, abolition, abrogation, annulment, breaking off, cancelation, cancellation, closing, dissolving, lifting, nullification, quashing, raising, recision, removal, repeal, rescinding, rescindment, resolution, resolving, reversal, revocation, sublation, withdrawal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κατάργηση (abolishment, abolition, abrogation, annulment), ακύρωση (abolishment, abolition, abrogation, annulment, cancel, cancellation, invalidation, nullification, repeal, reversal, validation, voidance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | érvénytelenítés (abatement, abolishment, annulment, avoidance, cancellation, invalidation, recission, reversal, write off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | risoluzione (decision, definition, determination, resolution, resolution capability, resolutory action, resolving capability, resolving power, solution, spatial resolution, sum), rescissione, recessione (recession, slump), atto risolutivo (resolutory action), atto di risoluzione (resolutory action), abrogazione (abolishment, abolition, abrogation, annulment, cancellation, repeal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 용도폐지. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | escissionray revogação (abrogation, avoidance, cancellation, countermand, defeasance, deprivation, recall, repeal, reversal, revocation, vacation, withdrawal). (various references) anulare (annulment, avoidance, call off, cancellation, defeasance, defeat, effacement, nullification, remitment, remittal, repeal, reversal, revocation), abrogare (abolishment, abrogation, defeasance, recall, repeal, revocation). (various references) аннулирование (abatement, annulment, cancellation, defeasance, defeat, invalidation, nullification, nullity, repeal, undoing, write off, writeoff). (various references) ukidanje (nullification, recession, repeal, reversal, suppression, suspension, undoing), poništenje (abolishment, annulment, avoid, avoidance, cancellation, cassation, countermand, defeasance, dissolution, invalidation, nullification, recession, repeal, vitiation). (various references) rescisión (cancellation, recision). (various references) upphävande (abatement, abeyance, abrogation, annulment, cancellation, cassation, defeasance, defeat, invalidation, repeal, resolutory action, reversal, suspension), annulering (annulment, cancellation, invalidation, nullification, revocation). (various references) การยกเลิก (cancel, cancelation, cancellation, recall). (various references) yürürlükten kaldırma (abatement, abolition, abrogation, desuetude, repeal, reversal, revocation), iptal (abatement, abolition, abrogation, annihilation, annulment, avoidance, cancel, cancellation, cancelling, cassation, defeasance, defeat, dissolution, invalidation, nullification, nullity, recall, repeal, reversal, revocation, termination, void, withdrawal), fesih (abolition, annulment, cancel, cancellation, cassation, defeasance, denouncement, dissolution, invalidation, repeal). (various references) відміна (abolishment, abolition, abrogation, annihilation, annulment, avoidance, defeasance, effacement, reversal, revocation, washout, withdrawal), анулювання (abatement, abolition, abrogation, annihilation, annulment, avoidance, cancel, cancellation, defeasance, invalidation, nullification, repeal, revocation, write off). (various references) sự thủ tiêu (abatement, abolishment, abolition, abrogation, annulment, avoidance, defeasance, defeat, disannulment, liquidation), sự huỷ bỏ (abolishment, abolition, abrogation, annulment, cancel, cancellation, disaffirmation, nullification, repeal, revocation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "rescission": rescissions. (additional references) | |
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"Rescission" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: rescision, rescissiobn. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "rescission" (pronounced rusi"zhun) |
| 7 | r u s i" zh u n | recision. |
| 6 | -u s i" zh u n | decision, indecision. |
| 5 | -s i" zh u n | circumcision, excision, incision, precision. |
| 4 | -i" zh u n | collision, derision, division, envision, misprision, provision, revision, supervision, vision. |
| 3 | -zh u n | abrasion, allusion, aspersion, aversion, cohesion, collusion, conclusion, confusion, contusion, conversion, corrosion, delusion, diffusion, disillusion, dispersion, diversion, equation, erosion, evasion, exclusion, excursion, explosion, extrusion, fusion, illusion, immersion, implosion, inclusion, incursion, infusion, intrusion, invasion, inversion, lesion, occasion, occlusion, persuasion, perversion, preclusion, profusion, reversion, seclusion, suasion, subdivision, submersion, subversion, television, transfusion, version. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-i-n-o-r-s-s-s" | |
-1 letter: incrosses, recisions. | |
-2 letters: cessions, cosiness, incisors, necrosis, recision, rosiness, scission, sericins, soricine. | |
-3 letters: censors, cession, cissies, coiners, cosines, cronies, crosses, eosinic, essoins, iciness, incises, incisor, incross, ionises, irenics, ironies, noisier, oneiric, orceins, oscines, osseins, recoins, scissor, seisins, seisors, seniors, sensors, sericin, session, sissier, sonsier. | |
-4 letters: censor, coiner, conies, corses, cosier, cosies, cosine, crises, crisis. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-i-n-o-r-s-s-s" | |
+1 letter: rescissions. | |
+2 letters: consistories. | |
+3 letters: accessorising, commissioners, excursionists, incuriousness, intercessions, percussionist, precisionists, recommissions, vicariousness. | |
+4 letters: antirecessions, avariciousness, capriciousness, circuitousness, historicalness, idiosyncrasies, inspectorships, ironicalnesses, percussionists, perniciousness, prolificnesses, resuscitations, ridiculousness, victoriousness. | |
+5 letters: acrimoniousness, commissionaires, concessionaires, connoisseurship, destructionists, expressionistic, impressionistic, incuriousnesses, misdescriptions, neuroscientists, pictorialnesses, precipitousness, restrictionisms, restrictionists, sacrosanctities, spinthariscopes, superscriptions, vicariousnesses. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 73 63 69 73 73 69 6F 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . ... -.-. .. ... ... .. --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01110011 01100011 01101001 01110011 01110011 01101001 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e s c i s s i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0073 0063 0069 0073 0073 0069 006F 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)52718569758585758180 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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