REJOIN

retort, come back, repay, return, riposte, rejoin

(verb) answer back

rejoin

(verb) join again

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

rejoin (third-person singular simple present rejoins, present participle rejoining, simple past and past participle rejoined)

To join again; to unite after separation.

To come, or go, again into the presence of; to join the company of again.

(archaic) To state in reply; -- followed by an object clause.

(archaic, intransitive): To answer to a reply.

(legal, intransitive) To answer, as the defendant to the plaintiff's replication.

(patent law, non-standard) in US patent law To re-insert a patent claim, typically after allowance of a patent application, applied to patent claims that had been withdrawn from examination under a restriction requirement, based on rejoinder (patent law).

Anagrams

• Joiner, joiner

Source: Wiktionary


Re*join" (r-join"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rejoined (-joind"); p. pr. & vb. n. Rejoining.] Etym: [F. rejoindre; pref. re- re- + joindre to join. See Join, and cf. Rejoinder.]

1. To join again; to unite after separation.

2. To come, or go, again into the presence of; to join the company of again. Meet and rejoin me, in the pensive grot. Pope.

3. To state in reply; -- followed by an object clause.

Re*join", v. i.

1. To answer to a reply.

2. (Law)

Definition: To answer, as the defendant to the plaintiff's replication.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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