revokable
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Definition
Adjective: - Capable of being revoked or annulled: Describes something, such as an order, decision, right, or privilege, that can be officially withdrawn, canceled, or taken back.
Usage
The adjective "revokable" is used to modify a noun, indicating that the thing it describes is not permanent or absolute and can be legally or formally rescinded. It is often used in legal, contractual, or administrative contexts. - It typically precedes the noun it modifies (e.g., a revokable license). - It can follow a linking verb like "is" or "was" (e.g., The permit is revokable).
Examples
- The company offered him a revokable privilege to access the building after hours.
- The terms of the agreement state that the discount is revokable at the discretion of management.
- A revokable trust allows the grantor to make changes or terminate it during their lifetime.
Advanced Usage
- "Easily revokable": Emphasizes that the action of revoking can be done with little difficulty or under simple conditions.
- The probationary status was easily revokable for any minor infraction.
- "Freely revokable": Suggests the right to revoke is unrestricted or unconditional.
- The offer was freely revokable by either party until the contract was signed.
Variants and Related Words
- Revocable: This is the more common and standard spelling of the same word. "Revokable" and "revocable" are interchangeable, though "revocable" is often preferred in formal writing.
- Revoke (verb): To officially cancel or annul something.
- The government can revoke his citizenship.
- Revocation (noun): The official act of revoking something.
- The revocation of his license left him unable to practice law.
Synonyms
- Reversible: Capable of being changed back to a previous state.
- Rescindable: Capable of being repealed or canceled.
- Voidable: Capable of being made void or invalid.
Antonyms
- Irrevocable: Not capable of being changed or revoked; final.
- Irreversible: Not able to be undone or altered.
- Permanent: Lasting or intended to last indefinitely without change.
Adjective
- capable of being revoked or annulled
- a revocable order