quashing order
C1CEFR level
85/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
A remedy in judicial review that deprives an unlawful decision of legal effect by setting it aside.
The court granted a quashing order and remitted the matter for fresh consideration.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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