Verb

(en verb)

To join again; to unite after separation.

To come, or go, again into the presence of; to join the company of again.

* (editor), ''The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope , Volume II, page 60,

Meet and rejoin me, in the pensive grot:

* , Episode 16

The pair parted company and Stephen rejoined Mr Bloom who, with his practised eye, was not without perceiving that he had succumbed to the blandiloquence of the other parasite. Alluding to the encounter he said, laughingly, Stephen, that is:

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(archaic) To state in reply; -- followed by an object clause.

* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4

'Be careful what you do,' rejoined another man's voice that I did not know, 'lest someone see you digging, and scent us out.'

(archaic): To answer to a reply.

(legal) To answer, as the defendant to the plaintiff's replication.

(patent law , non-standard) in US patent law To re-insert a patent claim, typically after allowance of a patent application, applied to patent claims that had been withdrawn from examination under a restriction requirement, based on rejoinder (patent law).

Verb

(en verb)

(intransitive) To say something in return; to answer; to reply.

to respond to a question or an argument

To act in return; to exhibit some action or effect in return to a force or stimulus; to do something in response; to accord.

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(ambitransitive) To correspond with; to suit.

* Fairfax

For his great deeds respond his speeches great.

To satisfy; to answer.

The prisoner was held to respond the judgment of the court.