Secede vs Rejoin - What's the difference?
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To split from or to withdraw from membership of a political union, an alliance or an organisation.
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(uncommon) To split or to withdraw one or more constituent entities from membership of a political union, an alliance or an organisation.
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To join again; to unite after separation.
To come, or go, again into the presence of; to join the company of again.
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(archaic) To state in reply; -- followed by an object clause.
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(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To re-insert a patent claim, typically after allowance of a patent application, applied to patent claims that had been withdrawn from examination under a restriction requirement, based on rejoinder (patent law).
As verbs the difference between secede and rejoin
is that secede is to split from or to withdraw from membership of a political union, an alliance or an organisation while rejoin is to join again; to unite after separation.secede
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(seced)Writers declare independence for Wirral., Wirral Globe, retrieved 11 July 2007.
- We can secede from the United Kingdom any time we want.
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- At the same time, Nolan also secretly contracted with the crafty United States Army general James Wilkinson to organize some men to secede Texas from Spanish America.
Usage notes
* For political entities, the term secede does not apply only to federal states, but also to other kinds of political unions. It is commonly used in the case of provinces seceding from a unitary state. * 'Secede' implies conflict, which may amount to physical conflict in the case of seceding from a political or religious entity, but which otherwise amounts to some form of disagreement at least by those who secede. * 'Withdrawal from membership' in the definition does not apply to an individual person who simply terminates membership in an organisation, but to a group which withdraws from membership to carry on related activities in a separate entity.rejoin
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(en verb)page 60,
- Meet and rejoin me, in the pensive grot:
- 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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- 'Be careful what you do,' rejoined another man's voice that I did not know, 'lest someone see you digging, and scent us out.'