Usually means: Persistently and firmly holds opinion.
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We found 10 dictionaries that define the word insists:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. insists: Merriam-Webster
  2. insists: Collins English Dictionary
  3. insists: Vocabulary.com
  4. Insists, insists: Wordnik
  5. insists: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. insists: Wiktionary
  7. insists: Dictionary.com
  8. insists: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. insists: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. insists: Legal dictionary

(Note: See insist as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (insist)

verb:  (with (that + indicative) or intransitive, with on or upon) To hold up a claim emphatically.
verb:  (sometimes with (that + subjunctive) or intransitive, with on or upon) To demand continually that something happen or be done; to reiterate a demand despite requests to abandon it.
verb:  (obsolete, chiefly geometry) To stand (on); to rest (upon); to lean (upon).
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