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say it: ri-SIZH-uhn
rescission is a noun meaning "(law) the act of rescinding; the cancellation of a contract and the return of the parties to the positions they would have had if the contract had not been made". It is pronounced /ɹɪˈsɪʒən/ — ri-SIZH-uhn. It carries one recorded sense.
(law) the act of rescinding; the cancellation of a contract and the return of the parties to the positions they would have had if the contract had not been made
“recission may be brought about by decree or by mutual consent”
law
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for rescission come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.