Rejoinder

Quick meaning: Rejoinder is a noun meaning (law) The defendant's answer to the replication.

Meaning

(law) The defendant's answer to the replication.

More Meanings

1. A response that answers another response.
2. A quick response that involves disagreement or is witty, especially an answer to a question.
3. (intransitive) To issue a rejoinder.
4. (transitive) To say as a rejoinder.
5. (US patent law) Re-insertion, typically after allowance of a patent application, of patent claims that had been withdrawn from examination under a restriction requirement.

Example Sentences

"I'm starting to-morrow. This is perhaps the last time we shall ever meet." I made an appropriate rejoinder, and he smiled wanly.

"76. ... P-R8(N) mate! Certainly not 76... P-R8(Q), though threatening mate on the move in seven different ways--as 77 Q-N5 mate would have been the painful rejoinder."

I have passed perhaps more time than any other man of my age and country in visits and assemblies, where the polite persons of both sexes distinguish themselves; and could not without much grief observe how frequently both gentlemen and ladies are at a loss for questions, answers, replies, and rejoinders.

The simplest rejoinder to all of Daenerys’ justifications is that this bloodshed could have been avoided. She was given a moment to choose, and she chose blind vengeance, the kind that eliminates any benevolence she hoped to bring to the seven kingdoms by burning it right out of the minds of anyone who saw her astride Drogon, mowing down men, women, and children with abandon.

Word Forms

• rejoinders
• rejoindering
• rejoindered

Synonyms for rejoinder

Depending on context, synonyms include comeback, retort, riposte, return.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include return, comeback, retort, riposte, reply, response.

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