Definition of Reneging
1. Verb. (present participle of renege) ¹
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Definition of Reneging
1. renege [v] - See also: renege
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Literary usage of Reneging
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Heroes and Heroines of Fiction: Modern Prose and Poetry; Famous Characters by William Shepard Walsh (1914)
"... a self-imagined " great philosopher," kindly at heart but reneging his own kindliness to pose as a cynic who looks on the world as a gigantic joke. ..."
2. SAS/OR(R) 9.1 User's Guide:: Qsim Application by Sas Institute, Institute SAS Institute (2004)
"These models address such subjects as queues with reneging, ... Queues with reneging When a customer arrives at a facility that includes queues and service, ..."
3. The American Hoyle: Or, Gentleman's Hand-book of Games, Containing All the by William Brisbane Dick (1894)
"reneging.—In some games certain cards have an arbitrary value, ami the holder ... In games where reneging is not allowed, this term is sometimes improperly ..."
4. Foster's Complete Hoyle: An Encyclopedia of All the Indoor Games Played at by Robert Frederick Foster (1897)
"reneging. The three highest trumps have special privileges in the matter of not ... This privilege of reneging is confined to the three highest trumps. ..."
5. Water Rights Reform: Lessons for Institutional Design by Bryan Randolph Bruns, Claudia Ringler, Ruth Suseela Meinzen-Dick (2005)
"A multitude of mechanisms may be used to discourage national governments from reneging on their commitments to local governments. ..."
6. Rare: State of the Union (1992)
"2 With full funding backed up by the force of law, a system of personal accounts would have the virtue that reneging on promises would simply be illegal. ..."
7. The Politics of Trade and Industrial Policy in Africa[: Forced Consensus? by Charles Chukwuma Soludo, Michael Osita Ogbu, Ha-Joon Chang (2004)
"In other words, the costs of reneging on such agreements once in force is too great for any future government to contemplate. 9 A theoretical caveat exists ..."