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What (who) is repudiate - definition

CONCEPT IN THE LAW OF CONTRACTS
Anticipatory breach; Repudiate; Repudiated; Repudiates; Repudiating

Repudiate         
·vt To divorce, put away, or discard, as a wife, or a woman one has promised to marry.
II. Repudiate ·vt To refuse to acknowledge or to pay; to Disclaim; as, the State has repudiated its debts.
III. Repudiate ·vt To cast off; to Disavow; to have nothing to do with; to Renounce; to Reject.
repudiate         
(repudiates, repudiating, repudiated)
If you repudiate something or someone, you show that you strongly disagree with them and do not want to be connected with them in any way. (FORMAL or WRITTEN)
Leaders urged people to turn out in large numbers to repudiate the violence...
= denounce
VERB: V n
repudiation (repudiations)
...his public repudiation of the conference decision.
= denunciation
N-VAR
repudiate         
v. a.
1.
Discard, reject, renounce, cast off, disclaim, abjure, disavow.
2.
Divorce, put away.
3.
[Modern.] disown (debts), disclaim, refuse to pay, refuse to acknowledge.

Wikipedia

Anticipatory repudiation

Anticipatory repudiation or anticipatory breach is a concept in the law of contracts which describes words or conduct by a contracting party that evinces an intention not to perform or not to be bound by provisions of the agreement that require performance in the future.

Examples of use of repudiate
1. State Department, which urged Russia to repudiate them.
2. They called on her to repudiate Farrakhan‘s remarks.
3. Jesse Jackson for Bush to repudiate Robertson‘s remarks.
4. He did not explicitly agree with them nor repudiate them.
5. So I thoroughly reject and repudiate his ugly rhetoric.