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refusenik
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Refusenik (, otkaznik , from "отказ", otkaz "refusal") was an unofficial term for individuals, typically but not exclusively Soviet Jews , who were denied permission to emigrate by the authorities of the former Soviet Union and other countries of the Eastern ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"Soviet Jew who has been refused permission to emigrate to Israel," 1975, a partial translation of Russian otkaznik , from otkazat "to refuse;" with English refuse (v.). Also see -nik .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context Soviet Union slang English) One of the Jewish citizens of the former Soviet Union who were refused permission to emigrate. 2 (context colloquial English) A person characterized by a particular refusal (especially one related to human rights.) ...
Usage examples of refusenik.
Like every other refusenik on the farm, Chester had been deluding himself.
Now she is eighty, and a telomere refusenik, a charter member of the genome conservation front.
Now she is over eighty, and a telomere refusenik, a charter member of the genome conservation front.
Robeson is David Duke in blackface: This Stalin Peace Prize winner turned his back on Jewish refuseniks in the Soviet Union.
As a child, he'd seen his father and his father's two brothers, all prominent refuseniks, shot execution style in his parents' living room.
But don't try to explain that to the refuseniks and the dissidents who every day make the world more aware of the dark corners of Kremlin policy.
Those Jewish refuseniks being hammered right in front of the whole Western media on a Moscow street.
PTC are germ-line recombination refuseniks: They refuse to have their children screened for fixable errors.