rejoinder
(noun) (law) a pleading made by a defendant in response to the plaintiff’s replication
rejoinder, retort, return, riposte, replication, comeback, counter
(noun) a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one); “it brought a sharp rejoinder from the teacher”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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.
(US patent law) Re-insertion, typically after allowance of a patent application, of patent claims that had been withdrawn from examination under a restriction requirement.
• (quick response): comeback, retort
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.
Source: Wiktionary
Re*join"der (-dr), n. Etym: [From F. rejoindre, inf., to join again. See Rejoin.]
1. An answer to a reply; or, in general, an answer or reply.
2. (Law)
Definition: The defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication.
Syn.
– Reply; ansswer; replication. See Reply.
Re*join"der, v. i.
Definition: To make a rejoinder. [Archaic]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
4 April 2025
(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; “The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country”
According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by AlcaldĂa Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de BolĂvar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.
