单词 | refusenik |
释义 | refusenik/rɪˈfjuːznɪk /noun 1A Jew in the former Soviet Union who was refused permission to emigrate to Israel.In 1973, after being denied permission to emigrate to Israel, he became one of the leading Jewish refuseniks lobbying for greater human rights in Brezhnev's Soviet Union....
2A person who refuses to follow orders or obey the law, especially as a protest.He is, of course, one of the great media survivors, or counterpunchers, or refuseniks, of our political age....
Origin1970s: from refuse1 + -nik. |
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