NOVATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does novate mean? 

• NOVATE (verb)
  The verb NOVATE has 1 sense:

1. replace with something new, especially an old obligation by a new one

  Familiarity information: NOVATE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NOVATE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Replace with something new, especially an old obligation by a new one

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "novate" is one way to...):

replace (substitute a person or thing for (another that is broken or inefficient or lost or no longer working or yielding what is expected))

Domain category:

civil law; jus civile; Justinian code; Roman law (the legal code of ancient Rome; codified under Justinian; the basis for many modern systems of civil law)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

novation ((law) the replacement of one obligation by another by mutual agreement of both parties; usually the replacement of one of the original parties to a contract with the consent of the remaining party)