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set aside

verb

B1CEFR level
45/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister

To cancel or nullify a judgment or order made by a court.

The defendant applied to set aside the default judgment on the ground of a real prospect of defending.

Similar: quash, overturn

Topic: Litigation in Legal English

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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