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refusenik

Translations

refuseniknoun

refuseniks

refuznikEmploi historique, surtout dans le contexte de l’URSS et de l’émigration juive.

Several Soviet refuseniks eventually gained international attention and were allowed to leave.

Plusieurs refuzniks soviétiques ont finalement attiré l’attention internationale et ont été autorisés à partir.

Additional translations

récalcitrantSens figuré, familier : personne qui refuse de se plier à une règle ou à une pratique.

refusenikadjective

Used attributively to modify another noun.

récalcitrantFamilier : qui refuse de se conformer à une règle, une consigne ou une pratique dominante.

Her refusenik stance on the new regulation put her at odds with management.

Son attitude récalcitrante face au nouveau règlement l’a mise en conflit avec la direction.

refuseniknoun

In the former Soviet Union, a citizen—especially a Jew—who was denied permission to emigrate.

Several Soviet refuseniks eventually gained international attention and were allowed to leave.

Informal: a person who refuses to comply with a rule, order, or prevailing practice.

Parking-fee refuseniks risk having their cars towed away.

refusenikadjective

Relating to or characteristic of a refusenik; refusing to comply.

Her refusenik stance on the new regulation put her at odds with management.