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refusenik
noun[ C ]
(alsorefusnik)uk /rɪˈfjuːz.nɪk/ us /rɪˈfjuːz.nɪk/
someone in the former Soviet Union who was not allowed to leave the country to go to live in another country, especially a Jew who was not allowed to go and live in Israel:
The film consists of firsthand accounts from many former refuseniks and their foreign collaborators.
He had been a refusenik for 10 years before he received a visa to leave Russia in 1988.
someone who refuses to do, use, or accept something:
The actor is a refusenik when it comes to discussing his personal life.
ID card refusniks will face fines.
Jennifer had travelled to Russia to help Jewish refuseniks.
He had lunch with the doyen of Soviet-era Jewish refusniks, Natan Sharansky.
There must be something in the DNA that turns them into fashion refuseniks.
She is one of the new wave of refuseniks who have traded urban convenience for self-sufficiency and freedom.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Refusing & rejecting
abjuration
abjure
abnegate
abnegation
bar
bat something/someone away
decline
disavow
gainsay
oppositional
opt
opt out
pass on
pass something up
punt on something
rebel
refuse
sb wouldn't touch something/someone with a bargepole/barge poleidiom
tear
would not do something for all the tea in Chinaidiom
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