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View definitions for answer back

answer back

noun as in comeback

verb as in back-talk

Strongest match

Strong matches

Weak matches

verb as in mouth off

verb as in retort

verb as in sass

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Just a few weeks ago, Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner defended Ms Gray's "exceptional" work and said she was being "demonised" in the media without the ability to answer back, with other ministers expressing discomfort at the "gendered" flavour of the attacks.

From BBC

She devises a way to beam them better, and gets an answer back, though not the answer anyone would expect.

"No one gave us an answer back about what we had reported and conveyed."

From BBC

"In a clinical setting, how that would happen is a doctor would check on the patient on an hourly basis and request a single time-point blood measurement of vancomycin. Someone would come to draw blood, send it to the clinic and get an answer back at some later time. Our system is one way to address that delay."

Chief executives wanting to talk and embody values may find it difficult to answer back.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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