refusal

refusal

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: rĭfyo͞ozʹəl, IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈfjuːzl̩/
• Rhymes: -uːzəl

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Noun

refusal (countable and uncountable, plural refusals)

1. The act of refusing.

   Your refusal to carry out your duties resulted in your sacking.

2. (civil engineering) Depth or point at which well or borehole drilling cannot continue.

Synonyms

• (act of refusing): repudiation, abnegation, declination

Derived terms

• right of first refusal

Related terms

• refuse

Translations

the act of refusing

Arabic: إِنْكَار‎ m (ʾinkār), رَفْض‎ m (rafḍ), إِبَاء‎ m (ʾibāʾ) Belarusian: адмо́ва f (admóva) Bulgarian: о́тказ (bg) m (ótkaz) Catalan: rebuig (ca) m, refús (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 拒絕／拒绝 (zh) (jùjué) Czech: odmítnutí (cs) n Dutch: weigering (nl) f Esperanto: rifuzo Finnish: kieltäytyminen (fi), torjuminen (fi) French: refus (fr) m German: Ablehnung (de) f, Weigerung (de) f, Verweigerung (de) f Hindi: इनकार (hi) m (inkār) Hungarian: elutasítás (hu), visszautasítás (hu) Indonesian: penolakan (id) Irish: éaradh m, eiteach m Italian: rifiuto (it) m Japanese: 拒絶 (ja) (きょぜつ, kyozetsu), 拒否 (ja) (きょひ, kyohi), 断わり (ことわり, kotowari) Korean: 거절 (ko) (geojeol), 거부 (ko) (geobu) Latin: negātiō f Macedonian: одбивање n (odbivanje) Maori: whakakorenga Persian: انکار‎ (fa) (enkâr), امتناع‎ (fa) (emtenâ') Polish: odmowa (pl) f Portuguese: recusa (pt) f Russian: отка́з (ru) m (otkáz) Scottish Gaelic: diùltadh m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: одби́ја̄ње n Roman: odbíjānje (sh) n Slovak: odmietnutie n Slovene: zavrnitev f Spanish: negativa (es) f, rechazo (es) m Swedish: vägran (sv) c Tajik: инкор (inkor) Telugu: నిరాకరణ (te) (nirākaraṇa) Ukrainian: відмо́ва (uk) f (vidmóva) Urdu: انکار‎ m (inkār)

depth or point at which well or borehole drilling cannot continue

Anagrams

• Laufers, earfuls, earsful, ferulas, fur seal, salufer