English Dictionary

rejoin

/ɹɪˈd͡ʒɔɪn/

verb

To join again; to unite after separation. / To come, or go, again into the presence of; to join the company of again. / (archaic) To state in reply; -- followed by an object clause.

After a long separation, they decided to rejoin their friends.

意味（1）

To join again; to unite after separation.

意味（2）

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

Meet and rejoin me, in the pensive grot:

意味（3）

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

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

意味（4）

(archaic, intransitive): To answer to a reply.

意味（5）

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

意味（6）

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To re-insert a patent claim, typically after allowance of a patent application, applied to patent claims that had been withdrawn from examination under a restriction requirement, based on rejoinder (patent law).