OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 475

resile

/ɹɪˈzaɪl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
retroceder
To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose.
I once described this rather vulgarly as a Euro-wanking make-work project and I do not resile from that.
If a legitimate expectation is established, it must be unfair for the public authority to resile from giving effect to that expectation, unless the wider interests of the public re…
Phrases