Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To charter again or anew; to grant a second or another charter to.
- noun A second charter; a renewal of a charter.
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- verb To
charter again - verb To
grant a second charter - noun A second, or renewed charter
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Examples
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So much so that at the start of his second term in 1832, he vetoed a recharter of the Second Bank of the U.S., retired all federal debt, and started the so-called Free Banking Era, in which every bank in the U.S. was chartered and regulated by the states.
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Among the items on display here are a copy of the message Jackson sent to the Senate vetoing the recharter of the federal bank and a cartoon of Jackson wielding a broken veto stick.
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He attacked the bank for requesting a recharter while opposing the kind of scrutiny needed to justify voting for it.
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He attacked the bank for requesting a recharter while opposing the kind of scrutiny needed to justify voting for it.
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In 1832, when the congressional sponsors of the Second Bank passed an act to recharter the institution, Jackson vetoed the bill.
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As a consequence President Andrew Jackson vetoed the legislative bill to recharter the bank.
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In the 1830s, then-President Andrew Jackson decided to destroy the bank, vetoing attempts to recharter it for another twenty years.
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In the 1830s, then-President Andrew Jackson decided to destroy the bank, vetoing attempts to recharter it for another twenty years.
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We'll recharter all corporations so that they could not externalize their costs to the taxpayers.
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(McDonald was referring to the politics of the 1830s and 1840s, when "good issues ... included protective tariffs and the recharter of the Bank of the United States; emphatically not good issues, because they were genuinely moral and potentially explosive, were slavery and Indian policy.")
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