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refusenik|rɪˈfjuːznɪk| Also refusnik. [Partial tr. Russ. otkáznik, f. stem of otkazát' to refuse: see -nik.] A Jew in the Soviet Union who has been refused permission to emigrate to Israel.
1975Nature 31 Jan. 297/2 If, as is often the case with scientists, the initial application is rejected, one may spend months or years as a ‘refusnik’, with neither the opportunity nor the necessary time to keep up one's reading or think about one's own research. 1976Listener 26 Aug. 237/1 Hundreds of people all over Britain make regular telephone calls to refuseniks every week. 1978Daily Tel. 19 Dec. 11/4 The couple..have recently been putting on a satirical show..mainly to keep up the morale of their ‘refusenik’ friends. 1980Jewish Chron. 18 July 18/1 The dissidents languishing in exile, in prison camps and insane asylums, and the refuseniks cut off from family and friends and..from their sources of livelihood. 1980Radio Times 29 Oct. 63/4 Tonight Avital talks about her life since she left Russia, a life of waiting and campaigning to free her husband and other Jewish refusniks from jail in the USSR.
Add:2. transf. One who refuses to obey orders, esp. as a protest. colloq.
1983Sunday Times (Colour Suppl.) 30 Oct. 39/4 Army regulations appear to have been altered to permit convicted ‘refusniks’ to be served with new call-up orders the moment they leave prison. 1986City Limits 10 Apr. 7 The 30 ‘refuseniks’ who would not go to Wapping have been joined by 50 people. 1987Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 8 Dec. 19/1 (heading) ‘Refuseniks’ of Voyager lobby Hawke. |