countermand - definitie. Wat is countermand
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Wat (wie) is countermand - definitie


countermand      
[?ka?nt?'m?:nd]
¦ verb revoke (an order).
?declare (voting) invalid.
Origin
ME: from OFr. contremander (v.), contremand (n.), from med. L. contramandare, from L. contra- 'against' + mandare 'to order'.
countermand      
v. a.
Revoke, rescind, recall, abrogate, annul, make void.
countermand      
(countermands, countermanding, countermanded)
If you countermand an order, you cancel it, usually by giving a different order. (FORMAL)
I can't countermand an order Winger's given.
= override, overrule
VERB: V n
Voorbeelden uit tekstcorpus voor countermand
1. Strauss toed the party line for public consumption but it would be nice to know if that was what he really felt or whether he just did not feel he had the authority to countermand orders.
2. Defense attorney Richard Hutton said that, with all due respect, "I don‘t think the court has the power to countermand the sheriff‘s decision" to place her under house arrest.
3. "Affirmative action, which originally sought to repair the state–induced damage to blacks from slavery and its aftermath, has within one generation brought about a permeating state–sponsored racism that is as odious as the Jim Crow laws it sought to countermand," Webb wrote in the Wall Street Journal.
4. The Supreme Court yesterday refused the state‘s request that it countermand a lower court‘s decision to release these five from jail, but it agreed to place them under full house arrest until July 15, thereby canceling the partial freedom of movement the lower court had granted.