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rejoinder🔊

(law) 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.

📑 Synonyms: comeback retort
💬 Quotations
"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(US patent law) Re-insertion, typically after allowance of a patent application, of patent claims that had been withdrawn from examination under a restriction requirement.

To issue a rejoinder.

To say as a rejoinder.

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