renvoyer — meaning in English
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English meaning
- dismiss verb To fire someone from a job, or to formally end someone's employment.
- refer verb To direct someone's attention to something, or send them elsewhere for information or help.
- remand verb To send someone accused of a crime back into custody while they wait for trial.
- resend verb To send something a second time, usually because it did not arrive, was not received properly or got no reply.
- revert verb To go back to a previous state, condition, or topic.
Senses
renvoyer is used for these senses in English:
- dismiss (transitive) To order to leave.
- dismiss (transitive) To reject; to refuse to accept.
- refer (intransitive, stative) To make reference to; to be about; to relate to; to regard; to allude to.
- remand To send a case back to a lower court for further consideration.
- resend (transitive) To send again.
- retransmit To transmit again.
- revert To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
dismiss — full definition
- verb To fire someone from a job, or to formally end someone's employment.
- verb To refuse to take something seriously or to consider it worth thinking about.
- verb To tell someone they are free to leave.
refer — full definition
- verb To direct someone's attention to something, or send them elsewhere for information or help.
- verb To mention or be about something; to relate to it.