Revoke
verb
To officially cancel something, like a law, decision, or privilege.
The judge can revoke your driver's license if you are caught drinking and driving.
Often appears as...
- revoke a license
- revoke a decision
verb
In games, to fail to follow suit when able and required to do so.
He had to forfeit the game when he revoked during a round of bridge.
Often appears as...
- revoke in poker
- revoke in bridge
verb
To officially cancel something, like a law, decision, or privilege.
The judge can revoke your driver's license if you are caught drinking and driving.
Often appears as...
- revoke a license
- revoke a decision
verb
In games, to fail to follow suit when able and required to do so.
He had to forfeit the game when he revoked during a round of bridge.
Often appears as...
- revoke in poker
- revoke in bridge
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Authority Needed
Only someone with official power can revoke something formally.
Only the head of the department has the authority to revoke your access to the lab.
Pro Tip 2/3Serious Consequences
Revoking is serious and can have big impacts on someone's rights or abilities.
If you cheat on the exam, the university may revoke your degree.
Pro Tip 3/3Permanent Action
Revoking usually implies a permanent cancelation, not a temporary one.
My membership was revoked after I broke the club's rules.
Pro Tip 1/3Authority Needed
Only someone with official power can revoke something formally.
Only the head of the department has the authority to revoke your access to the lab.
Pro Tip 2/3Serious Consequences
Revoking is serious and can have big impacts on someone's rights or abilities.
If you cheat on the exam, the university may revoke your degree.
Pro Tip 3/3Permanent Action
Revoking usually implies a permanent cancelation, not a temporary one.
My membership was revoked after I broke the club's rules.
Pro Tip 1/3Authority Needed
Only someone with official power can revoke something formally.
Only the head of the department has the authority to revoke your access to the lab.
Pro Tip 2/3Serious Consequences
Revoking is serious and can have big impacts on someone's rights or abilities.
If you cheat on the exam, the university may revoke your degree.
Pro Tip 3/3Permanent Action
Revoking usually implies a permanent cancelation, not a temporary one.
My membership was revoked after I broke the club's rules.
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Drunk Driver PIPE Frontier...
on a revoked license to that means you have more than enough time so get a new drivers license so I've got a bottle of it you're not going to bother with it we just can end up going to jail if it's going to get pulled over that's the people going to jail
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Why the best hire might...
which is not exactly politically correct and sounds a bit judgmental. But before my human resources certification gets revoked -- let me explain. A resume tells a story. And over the years, I've learned something about people
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Artemisia Gentileschi:...
but his powerful patrons managed to have his sentence revoked. Some scholars have suggested that Artemisia started the painting while the trial was still underway. Many have debated whether the rape influenced her work.
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Drunk Driver PIPE Frontier...
on a revoked license to that means you have more than enough time so get a new drivers license so I've got a bottle of it you're not going to bother with it we just can end up going to jail if it's going to get pulled over that's the people going to jail
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Why the best hire might...
which is not exactly politically correct and sounds a bit judgmental. But before my human resources certification gets revoked -- let me explain. A resume tells a story. And over the years, I've learned something about people
Video examples
Artemisia Gentileschi:...
but his powerful patrons managed to have his sentence revoked. Some scholars have suggested that Artemisia started the painting while the trial was still underway. Many have debated whether the rape influenced her work.
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Quote examples
Charles C. Mann
American Journalist
Obama issued a slew of executive orders about climate change during the eight years of his presidency. Inexplicably, President Trump revoked about half of them but left the other half in place. Since Obama's orders were intertwined, it's unclear exactly what applies.
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Matt Bomer
American Actor
I remember taking my brother's car out, pushing it down the driveway in neutral in the night, and going out joyriding with friends and getting flat tires and getting busted. My license was revoked by my dad. So, definitely, I was a kid. I was a teenage boy.
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Tatiana Schlossberg
Most legal scholars and historians agree that the Antiquities Act does not give the president the authority to revoke previous national monument designations, but a president can change the boundaries of a national monument.
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Afeni Shakur
American Activist
When I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked. When my bail was revoked, I was not allowed to have my own food. I could only have what was there.
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Rudolf Hilferding
Austrian Economist
It is therefore utterly false to say that Marx revokes the law of value as far as individual commodities are concerned, and maintains it in force solely for the aggregate of these commodities.
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Bryant H. McGill
American Author
Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.
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Nipsey Hussle
American Rapper
If you're going to write about rap music and hip-hop, and you don't love it, then we don't need your opinion, and we revoke your opinion.
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John Gregory Dunne
American Novelist
Membership in the closed society of the motion-picture industry is almost never revoked for moral failings.
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Rand Paul
American Politician
We should revoke passports from any Americans or dual citizens who are fighting with ISIS.
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Kirsten Dunst
Actress
I have gotten so many tickets. I hope I don't get my license revoked.
Quote examples
Charles C. Mann
American Journalist
Obama issued a slew of executive orders about climate change during the eight years of his presidency. Inexplicably, President Trump revoked about half of them but left the other half in place. Since Obama's orders were intertwined, it's unclear exactly what applies.
Quote examples
Matt Bomer
American Actor
I remember taking my brother's car out, pushing it down the driveway in neutral in the night, and going out joyriding with friends and getting flat tires and getting busted. My license was revoked by my dad. So, definitely, I was a kid. I was a teenage boy.
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Tatiana Schlossberg
Most legal scholars and historians agree that the Antiquities Act does not give the president the authority to revoke previous national monument designations, but a president can change the boundaries of a national monument.
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Afeni Shakur
American Activist
When I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked. When my bail was revoked, I was not allowed to have my own food. I could only have what was there.
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Rudolf Hilferding
Austrian Economist
It is therefore utterly false to say that Marx revokes the law of value as far as individual commodities are concerned, and maintains it in force solely for the aggregate of these commodities.
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Bryant H. McGill
American Author
Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.
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Nipsey Hussle
American Rapper
If you're going to write about rap music and hip-hop, and you don't love it, then we don't need your opinion, and we revoke your opinion.
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John Gregory Dunne
American Novelist
Membership in the closed society of the motion-picture industry is almost never revoked for moral failings.
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Rand Paul
American Politician
We should revoke passports from any Americans or dual citizens who are fighting with ISIS.
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Kirsten Dunst
Actress
I have gotten so many tickets. I hope I don't get my license revoked.
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