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refusenik

or °ù±ð·´Ú³Ü²õ·²Ô¾±°ì

[ ri-fyooz-nik ]

noun

Informal.
  1. a Soviet citizen, usually Jewish, who was denied permission to emigrate from the Soviet Union.


refusenik

/ °ùɪˈ´ÚÂá³Ü˳ú²Ôɪ°ì /

noun

  1. (formerly) a Jew in the Soviet Union who had been refused permission to emigrate
  2. a person who refuses to cooperate with a system or comply with a law because of a moral conviction
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of refusenik1

1970–75; refuse 1 + -nik, perhaps translation of Russian ´Ç³Ù°ìá³ú²Ô¾±°ì (unless the Russ word is itself a translation of refusenik )
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of refusenik1

C20: from refuse 1+ -nik
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After his 1978 Nobel Prize acceptance speech in Stockholm, he flew directly to Moscow to give a lecture about his findings to a group of refusenik scientists.

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“If you don’t like something, if you refuse to do something, you’re considered a refusenik,†he told AP.

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The Professor never thought he’d be a refusenik one day too.

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For the near term, if pilots don’t show up for training or service, strikes on Syria might be delayed or in the case of the refusenik air force ground personnel, need to be reorganized, Shafran Gittleman said.

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This refusenik sensibility is threaded through the entire series, and any attempt by the characters to sublimate themselves to social norms fizzled quickly and often in grand fashion.

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