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REFUSENIK [2 records]

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Record 1 1998-08-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary
DEF

A Soviet citizen, esp. a Jew, who is refused permission to emigrate

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général
DEF

Citoyen soviétique à qui l'on refusait le droit d'émigrer.

OBS

Par extension de sens, toute personne qui exprime un refus.

OBS

mot russe emprunté depuis 1983.

Spanish

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Record 2 1994-10-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary
DEF

Colloquially, any person who has been refused official permission to do something or who has refused to follow instructions, especially as a form of protest.

OBS

A transferred sense of a word which was originally a partial translation of the Russian word otkaznik, (itself made up of the stem of the verb otkazat (to refuse) and -nik, the agent suffix used in other English words such as beatnik and peacenik).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général

Spanish

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