What does refusal mean?

Definitions for refusal
rɪˈfyu zəlre·fusal

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. refusalnoun

    the act of refusing

  2. refusalnoun

    a message refusing to accept something that is offered

Wiktionary

  1. refusalnoun

    The act of refusing.

  2. refusalnoun

    Depth or point at which well or borehole drilling cannot continue.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Refusalnoun

    Etymology: from refuse.

    God has born with all his weak and obstinate refusals of grace, and has given him time day after day. John Rogers.

    When employments go a begging for want of hands, they shall be sure to have the refusal. Jonathan Swift.

ChatGPT

  1. refusal

    Refusal is the act or instance of declining, rejecting, or expressing a decision, wish, or unwillingness to accept, comply with, undertake, or agree to something. It could involve a certain offer, invitation, order, or command. It can also be the denial of satisfying a request, claim, or demand.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Refusalnoun

    the act of refusing; denial of anything demanded, solicited, or offered for acceptance

  2. Refusalnoun

    the right of taking in preference to others; the choice of taking or refusing; option; as, to give one the refusal of a farm; to have the refusal of an employment

Wikidata

  1. Refusal

    In horse riding, a refusal is the failure of a horse to jump a fence to which he/she is presented. This includes any stop in forward motion. A run-out is when the horse quickly slides past or "ducks out" of a fence instead of jumping it, without stopping forward motion.

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'refusal' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4659

  2. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'refusal' in Nouns Frequency: #1878

Anagrams for refusal »

  1. fur seal

  2. earfuls

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of refusal in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of refusal in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of refusal in a Sentence

  1. President Biden:

    We’ve been patient. But our patience is wearing thin, and your refusal has cost all of us.

  2. Peter Hotez:

    And it happened because of the refusal by the White House to launch a national campaign and a national strategy against the virus. So it's beyond upsetting.

  3. Yohannes Abraham:

    This intentionally generated opacity makes it harder for our government to move forward, oMB leadership's refusal to fully cooperate impairs our ability to identify opportunities to maximize the relief going out to Americans during the pandemic and it leaves us in the dark as it relates to COVID-related expenditures and critical gaps.

  4. Chris Van Hollen:

    The administrations use of taxpayer dollars to deploy National Guard troops and transfer active-duty military -- and National Guard troops refusal to provide details on these costs -- is unacceptable.

  5. Debbie Wasserman Schultz:

    I’m pleased that the Justice Department is following the facts wherever they may lead, despite Donald Trump’s dangerous distortions and his refusal to acknowledge the conclusions reached by the American intelligence community.

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