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UK
/dˌɛɹəɡˈeɪʃən/
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NOUN
- a communication that belittles somebody or something
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(law) the partial taking away of the effectiveness of a law; a partial repeal or abolition of a law
any derogation of the common law is to be strictly construed
How To Use derogation In A Sentence
- A derogation disapplies certain Convention rights completely; a reservation qualifies the right.
- You may see my attitude as defensive and oppugnant, but I vaticinate further derogation of our incomparable tongue should such complots be permitted to unfold without denunciation. A malison on the poor of spirit.
- Normalcy, in this version, was conceived as full integration - without any of the surreptitious derogations and defaults of the past - into a liberalised European economy.
- Poland was given a derogation until 2017 to enable it to improve conditions. Times, Sunday Times
- Diffuse reciprocity can take many forms, including concessions and derogations, or going out on a limb to persuade the capital for changes or a compromise.
- However, attitudes toward the civil rights of gay people might be directly related to measures of out-group derogation.
- Nevertheless, a challenge to the validity of the derogation would certainly be possible.
- However, the department sought a derogation from that and that has been upheld by the Supreme Court.
- For many people, the word humility has come to signify humiliation or self-derogation. John Backman: Can Humility Change The World?
- So, you can have derogations from application of laws to specific groups of people, but never on those bases.
