Usually means: Person refusing participation, often politically.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word refusenik:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. refusenik: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. refusenik: Merriam-Webster
  3. refusenik: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. refusenik: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. refusenik: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Refusenik, refusenik: Wordnik
  7. refusenik: Wiktionary
  8. refusenik: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. refusenik: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. refusenik: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. refusenik: Dictionary.com
  12. Refusenik (Israel), Refusenik (Muslim), Refusenik (Soviet Union), Refusenik (disambiguation), Refusenik (film), Refusenik: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. refusenik: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. refusenik: Netlingo
  2. refusenik: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Refusenik: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (refusenik)

noun:  (Soviet Union, historical, slang) One of the citizens of the former Soviet Union who was refused permission to emigrate (typically but not exclusively a Jewish citizen denied permission to emigrate to Israel).
noun:  (by extension, informal) A person who refuses to do something, usually as a protest; for example, one who refuses conscription or vaccination.

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