revendication
English
Etymology
French revendication.
Noun
revendication (countable and uncountable, plural revendications)
- The act of revendicating.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for revendication in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
French
Etymology
Legal Latin rei vindicatio, from res (“thing”) + vindicatio.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁə.vɑ̃.di.ka.sjɔ̃/
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Noun
revendication f (plural revendications)
- airing of one's demand; claiming of one's identity
- an instance of such a demand or claim
- 2004 January 16, “Éditorial : Un cautère sur une jambe de bois”, in Aujourd'hui:
- Les rémunérations dans la Fonction publique ont constitué, depuis toujours l’intersection explosive entre la politique gouvernementale et les revendications des partenaires sociaux.
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Related terms
- revendiquer
- revendicateur
Further reading
- “revendication”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.