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unlegislating

unlegislating is the present participle and gerund of unlegislate.

Meaning of unlegislate

Verb

unlegislate (third-person singular simple present unlegislates, present participle unlegislating, simple past and past participle unlegislated)

  1. (ambitransitive) To undo or annul legislation.
    • […] legislated it into being, and having done that, I do not know how to unlegislate it. People talk about doing away with some of this legislation. The time is 25 years past when we could have done away with much of the labor legislation.1963, U.S. Congress, Hearings, volume 2, page 81

Questions about unlegislating

What is unlegislating the present participle and gerund of?
Unlegislating is the present participle and gerund of unlegislate.

Words near unlegislating in the dictionary

  1. unlegally
  2. unlegendary
  3. unlegislate
  4. unlegislated
  5. unlegislates
  6. unlegislating
  7. unlegislative
  8. unlegitimizable
  9. unlegitimized
  10. unleisured
  11. unleisuredness

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