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refusal

DEFINITIONS OF: refusal

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n the act of refusing

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repudiation
refusal to acknowledge or pay a debt or honor a contract (especially by public authorities)
prohibition
refusal to approve or assent to
interdiction
authoritative prohibition
ban, banning, forbiddance, forbidding
an official prohibition or edict against something
Type of:
denial
the act of refusing to comply (as with a request)

n a message refusing to accept something that is offered

Types:
declination, regrets
a polite refusal of an invitation
Type of:
content, message, subject matter, substance
what a communication that is about something is about
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