President Donald Trump Tuesday signed the first in a series of congressional regulatory rollback bills, revoking an Obama-era regulation that required oil and mining companies to disclose their payments to foreign governments.
Full Definition of REBELLION. 1. : opposition to one in authority or dominance. 2. a: open, armed, and usually unsuccessful defiance of or resistance to an established government b: an instance of such defiance or resistance. See rebellion defined for English-language learners.
Related: Rebelled; rebelling. n. person who makes war on his country for political motives, mid-14c., from rebel (adj.). Meaning supporter of the American cause in the War of Independence is from 1775; sense of supporter of the Southern cause in the American Civil War is attested from April 15, 1861.