Refusnik

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of refusenik. alt-of, alternative

    "Among the reported abuses of human rights provisions were these: […] Jews had been refused permission to emigrate for unstated reasons, and many such refusniki – a sad new term in the Russian^([sic]) language – had been dismissed from their jobs, thus being reduced to poverty; […]"

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"Among the reported abuses of human rights provisions were these: […] Jews had been refused permission to emigrate for unstated reasons, and many such refusniki – a sad new term in the Russian^([sic]) language – had been dismissed from their jobs, thus being reduced to poverty; […]"

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