Other forms: repudiations
Repudiation is a formal refusal to accept or honour something. Repudiation of the debt, a public repudiation, repudiation of the treaty.
In contract law it means showing you will not perform, which lets the other side treat the agreement as ended. Of a debt it is a state refusing to pay what it owes, and the consequences last decades.
1nounrepudiationA formal refusal to accept or honour something.
“The new government's repudiation of the old treaty angered its neighbours.”
repudiation is a refusal.
Latin repudiatio comes from repudium, a divorce or rejection.
Latin
repudiātiō
English, today
repudiation
From Latin repudiātiō, equivalent to repudiate + -ion.
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