Crossword clues for revocable
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Revocable \Rev"o*ca*ble\, a. [L. revocabilis: cf. F. r['e]vocable. See Revoke.] Capable of being revoked; as, a revocable edict or grant; a revocable covenant. [1913 Webster] -- Rev"o*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Rev"o*ca*bly, adv.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., from Old French revocable or directly from Latin revocabilis "that may be revoked," from revocare (see revoke). Alternative revokable attested from 1580s.
Wiktionary
a. Having the ability of being revoke; capable of being revoked.
WordNet
adj. capable of being revoked or annulled; "a revocable order" [syn: revokable] [ant: irrevocable]
Usage examples of "revocable".
Whether an occupational license is to be treated as a privilege revocable without a hearing, or as conferring a property right deserving of greater protection, depends very largely on prevailing estimates of the social desirability of a calling.
Court has sought to distinguish between grants of privileges, whether to individuals or to corporations, which are contracts and those which are mere revocable licenses, although on account of the doctrine of presumed consideration mentioned earlier, this has not always been easy to do.
Any grant of the kind is necessarily revocable, and the exercise of the trust by which the property was held by the State can be resumed at any time.
The determination by Congress that the whole flow of a stream should be devoted to navigation does not take any private property rights of a water power company which holds a revocable permit to erect dams and dykes for the purpose of controlling the current and using the power for commercial purposes.
Constitution was a revocable compact between independent states, never mind that the North had consistently used its numerical majority to force through Congress tariffs that worked only to ruin the South.