verb (used with object)
- to come again into the company of: to rejoin a party after a brief absence.
- to join together again; reunite.
verb (used without object)
- to become joined together again.
verb (used with object)
- to say in answer; reply, especially to counterreply.
verb (used without object)
- to answer; reply, especially to counterreply.
- Law. to answer a plaintiff’s replication.
verb
- to come again into company with (someone or something)
- (tr) to put or join together again; reunite
verb (tr)
- to say (something) in reply; answer, reply, or retort
- law to answer (a claimant’s reply)
also re-join, 1520s, “unite again, unite after separation” (transitive), from re- “again” + join (v.). Meaning “join the company of again” is from 1610s. Related: Rejoined; rejoining.
“to answer,” mid-15c., legal term, from Middle French rejoin-, stem of rejoindre “to answer to a legal charge,” from Old French re- “back” (see re-) + joindre “to join” (see join). General (non-legal) meaning first recorded 1630s.