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rejoining

rejoining is the present participle and gerund 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To re-insert a patent claim, typically after allowance of a patent application, applied to patent claims that had been withdrawn from examination under a restriction requirement, based on rejoinder.

Noun

rejoining (plural rejoinings)

  1. The act of joining again.

Forms of rejoining

pluralrejoinings

Questions about rejoining

What does rejoining mean?
Rejoining means the act of joining again.
What is rejoining the present participle and gerund of?
Rejoining is the present participle and gerund of rejoin.
What part of speech is rejoining?
Rejoining is a noun.
What is the plural of rejoining?
The plural of rejoining is rejoinings.

Words near rejoining in the dictionary

  1. rejoinders
  2. rejoindure
  3. rejoined
  4. rejoiner
  5. rejoiners
  6. rejoining
  7. rejoinings
  8. rejoins
  9. rejoint
  10. rejointed
  11. rejointing

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