decertify

Verb

1. To annul the certification of.
   • The American Medical Association (AMA) was formed in 1845 to gain for medical doctors a monopoly on legal licensure as health practitioners. The young AMA waged fierce (and quite successful) battles to de-certify the...
   • Nigeria was tagged as a transit-route of drug carriers. This prompted the United States government to decertify the country. - 2003, Patrick Keku, Tunde Akingbade, Traveler's Guide to Living in Nigeria: Security and...
2. To annul a labor union.
   • As Sallas immediately said, the 130 scabs who so easily replaced the striking printers in '85 won't be foisted upon the union--to degrade it and possibly decertify it. - 1988 November 11, Michael Miner, “Strike Accord...