Definition

To completely cancel out, nullify, or prove something wrong with the casual brutality of a red pen through a bad idea. It's the act of denying truth, rendering something ineffective, or counteracting an effect so thoroughly it might as well never have existed. The verbal equivalent of Ctrl+Z on someone's entire argument.

Example Usage

The new policy negates all the progress we made last year, so we're basically speed-running failure.

Source: General business terminology

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