resiliate
resiliate verb: to exit, cancel, or draw back from a lease or contract.
Verb (1)
resiliate (third-person singular simple present resiliates, present participle resiliating, simple past and past participle resiliated)
- To exit, cancel, or draw back from a lease or contract.
- A lessee may resiliate the current lease if he is allocated a dwelling [...]. An employer may, where an employee ceases to be in his employ, resiliate a lease that is accessory to the contract of employment [...].1989, Esten Kenneth Williams, F. W. Rhodes, Christopher Bentley, John McNair, Mavis Butkus, Marc Casavant, Canadian law of landlord and tenant
- One of the parties may, for a serious reason, unilaterally resiliate the contract ...2003, Michał Seweryński, Collective Agreements and Individual Contracts of Employment, Kluwer Law International, →ISBN
Verb (2)
resiliate (third-person singular simple present resiliates, present participle resiliating, simple past and past participle resiliated)
- To rebound; to bounce back.
- The Rays, instead of being transmitted into the Air through the Glass, find the Passage shut by a Surface smooth enough to make them resiliate easily under an Angle equal to that of their Fall.1763, Spectacle de la nature: or, Nature display'd, page 296
- Some substances, after being compressed into smaller dimensions, resiliate when the compressing power is withdrawn, into their former volume, whithout including any internal voids or interstices which require to be filled by a foreign body.1833, James Carson, An inquiry into the causes of the motion of the blood, page 323
- To reecho, to support or amplify through similar exposition.
- And if the text itself virtually announces that something was suppressed then it is the pious reader's/interpreter's obligation to resiliate as much as is possible about the suppression.2006, John W. McGinley, About the King's Choice to Build His Palace Right on Top of the Dunghill, →ISBN, page 459
- The second of these complementary tasks will be to follow through and properly resiliate those portions of classical Rabbinic writings which help us to understand not only the "Exodus" portions of the ha-katuv "biblical theology" but also all the relevant portions of the Tanakh in this vein.2008, John W. McGinley, The Secret Diary of Ben Zoma, →ISBN, page 281
- To make or become resilient.
- The man is a miracle of resiliency. Long may he resiliate (?),2014, Frederick Spencer Kiley, Letters from Uncle Fred, →ISBN, page 114
- ...resilience interventions need to be triggered to counteract the impace of Financial Engineering to stabilise the system until the global system transitions back below the R1 tipping point, that is, to a more safe and healthy system state. In short, financial markets should be free to resiliate...2011, Gunilla Sundström, Erik Hollnagel, Governance and Control of Financial Systems, →ISBN, page 137
Examples of resiliate in a sentence
- [...] Tremblay decided to give Normand notice on April 19, 2001, that it intended to resiliate the contract.2012, John O. Haley, Fundamentals of Transnational Litigation: The United States, Canada, Japan, and The European Union, LexisNexis, →ISBN:
- The portions of these incursive texts which we will now resiliate and which are most germane are italicized and in bold-face.2014, Hullin, Jerusalem {Resiliating Jerusalem} and Athens, →ISBN, page 204:
- And the other citations are in this set insofar as they resiliate the Shelling gems.2014, Hullin, Jerusalem {Resiliating Jerusalem} and Athens, →ISBN, page 278:
- In short, financial markets should be free to resiliate freely and without the impact of lobbying.2011, Gunilla Sundström, Erik Hollnagel, Governance and Control of Financial Systems, →ISBN, page 137:
Forms of resiliate
| third-person singular present | resiliates |
|---|---|
| present participle | resiliating |
| past participle | resiliated |
| past | resiliated |
Origin of resiliate
From French résilier (“cancel, annul, invalidate”).
From Latin resiliō (“leap or spring back; rebound”).
Questions about resiliate
- What does resiliate mean?
- Resiliate means to exit, cancel, or draw back from a lease or contract.
- How do you use resiliate in a sentence?
- [...] Tremblay decided to give Normand notice on April 19, 2001, that it intended to resiliate the contract.
- What part of speech is resiliate?
- Resiliate is a verb.
- What is the past tense of resiliate?
- The past tense of resiliate is resiliated.
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