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irrepealable
adjective
law specializeduk /ˌɪr.ɪˈpiː.lə.bəl/ us /ˌɪr.əˈpiː.lə.bəl/(also unrepealable)
A law that is irrepealable is impossible to repeal(= remove its legal force):
They understood that the principles of constitutional liberty would be in peril unless established by irrepealable law.
Contracts made under such regulations are declared unrepealable.
Related word
repeal
The legislation was clearly useless, yet politically unrepealable.
This consensus rests on traditions which are authenticated by custom, and is infallible and thus irrepealable.
Congress demanded that states should adopt constitutions with clauses in them providing for universal manhood suffrage, and agree that these features be irrepealable.
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