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rejoining

verb

Meaning

  1. To join again; to unite after separation.
  2. To come, or go, again into the presence of; to join the company of again.
  3. To state in reply; -- followed by an object clause.
  4. : To answer to a reply.
  5. To answer, as the defendant to the plaintiff's replication.
  6. 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To re-insert a patent claim, typically after allowance of a patent application, applied to patent claims that had been withdrawn from examination under a restriction requirement, based on rejoinder .

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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