defund

Definitions

To cancel funding for.

US, transitive

Examples

“Did the Arizona legislators satisfy⟳ the principles of deliberation when they decided to defund organ transplants?”

“However, when Congress has attempted to defund a presidential agency, presidents have⟳ responded by creating new agencies to perform⟳ similar functions.”

“"It has me concerned that this religiously-powered anti-access anti-person campaign has succeeded in a small town in America already," Chrastka told Motherboard. "The idea that there is a breakdown in the respect⟳ that we used to have⟳ in America for the separation of church and state and a rise⟳ of a political perspective that wants to essentially break⟳ government, defund education, approach⟳ issues around the rights of individual humans as if it was a criminalization campaign... this is a troubling moment and a signal for the rest⟳ of America to wake⟳ up."”

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