verb

• To join again; to unite after separation.
• To come, or go, again into the presence of; to join the company of again.
• (archaic) To state in reply.
• (archaic, intransitive): To answer to a reply.
• (law, intransitive) To answer, as the defendant to the plaintiff's replication.
• (patent law, nonstandard) in US patent law To re-insert a patent claim, typically after allowance of a patent application, applied to patent claims that had been withdrawn from examination under a restriction requirement, based on rejoinder (patent law).