rejoinder
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (America): IPA: /ɹɪd͡ʒˈɔ͡ɪndɚ/
rejoinder (plural rejoinders)
- (legal) The defendant's answer to the replication.
- A response that answers another response.
- A quick response that involves disagreement or is witty, especially an answer to a question.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 38
- "I'm starting to-morrow. This is perhaps the last time we shall ever meet."
- I made an appropriate rejoinder, and he smiled wanly.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 38
- (US patent law) Re-insertion, typically after allowance of a patent application, of patent claims that had been withdrawn from examination under a restriction requirement.
- French: réplique
- German: schlagfertige Erwiderung, schlagfertige Entgegnung, schlagfertige Bemerkung
rejoinder (rejoinders, present participle rejoindering; past and past participle rejoindered)
- (intransitive) To issue a rejoinder.
- (transitive) To say as a rejoinder.
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