severable
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7.9
- adjective
- /ˈsɛvərəbəl/
:
separable
- The 11th Circuit declared the mandate severable.
Examples
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If the court rules the mandate to be severable, the law becomes a non-law, and even the administration has said it would be 'unworkable.'
Blog text (10) -
To achieve this purpose, the provisions of this Executive Order are declared to be severable.
Blog text (29) -
The wife's counsel has argued that the right to mahr is severable and independent of any other obligations in the marriage contract.
Blog text (29) -
Emerson's emphasis on the self-fulfillment rationale, however, suggested that the idea of protection for free speech might be severable from the idea of promoting democratic theory.
Academic text (1996) -
In court, the judge ruled that the contract's provisions were severable and could be changed independently.
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The project's guidelines are severable, allowing each section to be modified without affecting the others.
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The committee decided that the amendments to the bill were severable from the main legislation, enabling separate consideration.
Synonyms
20
3.3
Something you can take off or move to another place
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3.5
A part you can remove without damaging the thing it is on
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4.6
Able to be taken apart from something else
Able to be separated or treated as separate from something else
Able to be divided into parts
Able to be separated into smaller parts
Can be split along a natural line or flat surface
You can move it from its place with some effort
Able to be divided from other things and kept on its own
Antonyms
Compounds
- Formal
An agreement with separate parts so one broken part does not cancel the rest
How Separable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Severable comes from the root sever, which originally meant 'to cut off' or 'separate' and is like the common word separate, while the ending -able means 'able to be'. So, something severable is able to be cut off or separated from the rest.