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re-join

re-join is the alternative form of rejoin.

Meaning of rejoin

Verb (1)

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

  1. To join again; to unite after separation.
    • Soon after departure, we cross the invisible border into Scotland to enjoy more stunning coastal scenery, before the line finally swings inland at Burnmouth to traverse pine-clad valleys, shadowed by the A1 trunk road until we rejoin the coast at Cove, east of Dunbar.2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 75
    Antonyms:
    disjoin, unjoin
  2. To come, or go, again into the presence of; to join the company of again.
    • Meet and rejoin me, in my penſive Grott.1737, [Alexander] Pope, The Second Epistle of the Second Book of Horace, Imitated, London: […] R[obert] Dodsley, […], →OCLC, page 14, line 18

Verb (2)

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

  1. (archaic) To state in reply.
    • "Be careful what you do," rejoined another man's voice that I did not know, "lest someone see you digging, and scent us out."[1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, “In the Vault”, in Moonfleet (Arnold’s English Literature Series), London: Edward Arnold & Co., →OCLC, page 44
  2. (archaic, intransitive) To answer to a reply.
  3. (intransitive) To answer, as the defendant to the plaintiff's replication.
  4. (US, nonstandard) To re-insert a patent claim, typically after allowance of a patent application, applied to patent claims that had been withdrawn from examination under a restriction requirement, based on rejoinder.

Forms of re-join

third-person singular presentre-joins
present participlere-joining
past participlere-joined
pastre-joined

Questions about re-join

What is re-join the alternative form of?
Re-join is the alternative form of rejoin.

Words near re-join in the dictionary

  1. re-investigations
  2. re-issue
  3. re-issued
  4. re-issues
  5. re-issuing
  6. re-join
  7. re-joined
  8. re-joining
  9. re-joins
  10. re-label
  11. re-labeled

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