rejoinder

English

Etymology

From Middle French rejoindre, with infinitive used as noun frequent in Law French.

Pronunciation

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(US): IPA^(key): /ɹɪd͡ʒˈɔ͡ɪndɚ/
Rhymes: -ɔɪndə(ɹ)

Noun

rejoinder (plural rejoinders)

(law) The defendant's answer to the replication.
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.
(US patent law) Re-insertion, typically after allowance of a patent application, of patent claims that had been withdrawn from examination under a restriction requirement.

Synonyms

(quick response): comeback, retort

Translations

defendant's answer

French: réponse (fr) f
German: Gegenerwiderung f, Duplik f

Occitan: replica f, respòsta f, responsa (oc)

reply

Dutch: repliek (nl)
Finnish: vastaus (fi)
French: réplique (fr) f

German: schlagfertige Erwiderung f, schlagfertige Entgegnung f, schlagfertige Bemerkung f
Occitan: respòsta f, replica f
Swedish: replik (sv)

Verb

rejoinder (third-person singular simple present rejoinders, present participle rejoindering, simple past and past participle rejoindered)

(intransitive) To issue a rejoinder.
(transitive) To say as a rejoinder.

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