"sunset clause" meaning in English

See sunset clause in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: sunset clauses [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} sunset clause (plural sunset clauses)
  1. (law) A provision of a law which says the law or something under it, as an agency or benefit established by it, will come to an end on a particular date or after a particular period of time. Categories (topical): Law Synonyms: sunset provision Related terms: condition precedent, condition subsequent Translations (legal provision): 日落條款 (Chinese Mandarin), 日落条款 (rìluò tiáokuǎn) (Chinese Mandarin), 落日條款 (Chinese Mandarin), 落日条款 (luòrì tiáokuǎn) (Chinese Mandarin), solnedgangsklausul [common-gender] (Danish), raukeamislauseke (Finnish), norme juridique temporaire [feminine] (French), solnedgangsklausul [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), solnedgångsklausul [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-sunset_clause-en-noun-w2DMSb5J Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations Topics: law

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for sunset clause meaning in English (2.9kB)

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "sunrise clause"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sunset clauses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "sunset clause (plural sunset clauses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant transliterations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Law",
          "orig": "en:Law",
          "parents": [
            "Justice",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "A sunset clause in this act says the tax exemption will expire on the thirtieth day after the effective date of the act.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A provision of a law which says the law or something under it, as an agency or benefit established by it, will come to an end on a particular date or after a particular period of time."
      ],
      "id": "en-sunset_clause-en-noun-w2DMSb5J",
      "links": [
        [
          "law",
          "law#English"
        ],
        [
          "provision",
          "provision"
        ],
        [
          "law",
          "law"
        ],
        [
          "say",
          "say"
        ],
        [
          "something",
          "something"
        ],
        [
          "under",
          "under"
        ],
        [
          "agency",
          "agency"
        ],
        [
          "benefit",
          "benefit"
        ],
        [
          "establish",
          "establish"
        ],
        [
          "come to an end",
          "come to an end"
        ],
        [
          "on",
          "on"
        ],
        [
          "particular",
          "particular"
        ],
        [
          "date",
          "date"
        ],
        [
          "after",
          "after"
        ],
        [
          "period",
          "period"
        ],
        [
          "time",
          "time"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(law) A provision of a law which says the law or something under it, as an agency or benefit established by it, will come to an end on a particular date or after a particular period of time."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "condition precedent"
        },
        {
          "word": "condition subsequent"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "sunset provision"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "law"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "legal provision",
          "word": "日落條款"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "rìluò tiáokuǎn",
          "sense": "legal provision",
          "word": "日落条款"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "legal provision",
          "word": "落日條款"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "luòrì tiáokuǎn",
          "sense": "legal provision",
          "word": "落日条款"
        },
        {
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "legal provision",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "solnedgangsklausul"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "legal provision",
          "word": "raukeamislauseke"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "legal provision",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "norme juridique temporaire"
        },
        {
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "legal provision",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "solnedgangsklausul"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "legal provision",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "solnedgångsklausul"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sunset clause"
}
{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "sunrise clause"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sunset clauses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "sunset clause (plural sunset clauses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "condition precedent"
    },
    {
      "word": "condition subsequent"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
        "en:Law"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "A sunset clause in this act says the tax exemption will expire on the thirtieth day after the effective date of the act.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A provision of a law which says the law or something under it, as an agency or benefit established by it, will come to an end on a particular date or after a particular period of time."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "law",
          "law#English"
        ],
        [
          "provision",
          "provision"
        ],
        [
          "law",
          "law"
        ],
        [
          "say",
          "say"
        ],
        [
          "something",
          "something"
        ],
        [
          "under",
          "under"
        ],
        [
          "agency",
          "agency"
        ],
        [
          "benefit",
          "benefit"
        ],
        [
          "establish",
          "establish"
        ],
        [
          "come to an end",
          "come to an end"
        ],
        [
          "on",
          "on"
        ],
        [
          "particular",
          "particular"
        ],
        [
          "date",
          "date"
        ],
        [
          "after",
          "after"
        ],
        [
          "period",
          "period"
        ],
        [
          "time",
          "time"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(law) A provision of a law which says the law or something under it, as an agency or benefit established by it, will come to an end on a particular date or after a particular period of time."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "law"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "sunset provision"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "legal provision",
      "word": "日落條款"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "rìluò tiáokuǎn",
      "sense": "legal provision",
      "word": "日落条款"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "legal provision",
      "word": "落日條款"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "luòrì tiáokuǎn",
      "sense": "legal provision",
      "word": "落日条款"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "legal provision",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "solnedgangsklausul"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "legal provision",
      "word": "raukeamislauseke"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "legal provision",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "norme juridique temporaire"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "legal provision",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "solnedgangsklausul"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "legal provision",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "solnedgångsklausul"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sunset clause"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (1d5a7d1 and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.