revendication

English

Etymology

French revendication.

Noun

revendication (countable and uncountable, plural revendications)

1. The act of revendicating.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “revendication”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

French

Etymology

Legal Latin rei vindicatio, from res (“thing”) + vindicatio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.vɑ̃.di.ka.sjɔ̃/

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Noun

revendication f (plural revendications)

1. airing of one's demand; claiming of one's identity
2. an instance of such a demand or claim
   • 2004 January 16, “Éditorial : Un cautère sur une jambe de bois”, in Aujourd'hui‎^[1]:

     Les rémunérations dans la Fonction publique ont constitué, depuis toujours l’intersection explosive entre la politique gouvernementale et les revendications des partenaires sociaux.

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Related terms

• revendiquer
• revendicateur

Further reading

• “revendication”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.