rejoinder
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9.9
- noun
- /rɪˈdʒɔɪndər/
- Formal
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réplica
- The defendant's lawyer submitted a rejoinder to address the plaintiff's claims during the trial.
Examples
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The standard rejoinder to the allegations was that such maltreatment of prisoners, suspects, and local inhabitants was counterproductive in terms of eliciting intelligence data from the population.
Academic text (1993) -
Since I have criticized the first of these publications of his with a full-length rejoinder and have discussed the other in my critique, supra, of Long, let me merely summarize my criticisms of these two points.
Blog text (10) -
However, this objection, as it stands, is open to the following rejoinder.
Academic text (1990) -
As it turns out, certain parts of our rejoinder would be conceded by Nietzsche.
Academic text (2000) -
Alfred wasn't, not in the least, but he had lived much of his life in court, and a polite rejoinder came automatically to his lips.
Fiction book (1991) -
Round two will be for me to understand what you meant by what you wrote in your brief and seemingly to the point comment to Dawit's rejoinder.
Blog text (25) -
Fisher continued to press his main argument, publishing a reply to Smith's rejoinder and Bassett's concurrent salvo.
Academic text (2006) -
It turns out that Nietzsche would once again grant at least part of our rejoinder: Aph. 208 does not accurately portray every scholar.
Academic text (2000) -
You'll recall that the paper in Annals of Applied Statistics by McShane and Wyner had critiques by nine teams of colleagues as well as a rejoinder. That paper was put online well in advance of publication, and the authors referred to the online critiques as well as published critiques in their printed rejoinder and supporting online material.
Blog text (10) -
You'll recall that the paper in Annals of Applied Statistics by McShane and Wyner had critiques by nine teams of colleagues as well as a rejoinder. That paper was put online well in advance of publication, and the authors referred to the online critiques as well as published critiques in their printed rejoinder and supporting online material.
Blog text (10)
Synonyms
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1.0
A written or spoken answer to a question
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1.0
An answer in speech or writing to a question from someone
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6.7
A statement that says another person's argument is wrong
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
In law, rejoinder keeps the same idea: from re- 'again' and joindre 'to join', it is a formal reply that 'joins back' to the other side’s claims by answering their points, which is why a rejoinder is used as a defendant’s written response.