Definitions for "REFUSAL"
A horse's act of stopping in front of an obstacle, penalised unless the horse then clears the obstacle without having to improve its run-up.
Failure to jump a fence because the horse stops or tries to run around it. Scored as a disobedience.
When a horse stops before the fence or runs out to the side of the fence to avoid negotiating the obstacle it is called a refusal. The refusal is scored as a disobedience.
Denial of something desired; as an elderly maiden's hand in marriage, to a rich and handsome suitor; a valuable franchise to a rich corporation, by an alderman; absolution to an impenitent king, by a priest, and so forth. Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition, the refusal tentative and the refusal feminine. The last is called by some casuists the refusal assentive.
The act of refusing; denial of anything demanded, solicited, or offered for acceptance.
The right of the first actor or model cast in an advertisement to refuse or accept the assignment.
a permission to go back and learn
If planning permission is refused you can appeal to higher authority. Theoretically the appeal is to the Secretary of State for the Environment, who then appoints an inspector. In practice you appeal to the Planning Inspectorate. If the inspector upholds the refusal, that decision is final. It can only be challenged on legal grounds in the High Court. You can submit another application immediately but the new plans must be substantially different.
This is a term used in pile driving. When the piling is driven into the ground to the point that the piling is "refusing" to penetrate the ground further with the weight of the heavy equipment used in driving bearing on the piling. At this point it would be noted that "the piling was driven to the point of refusal." Example.
The right of taking in preference to others; the choice of taking or refusing; option; as, to give one the refusal of a farm; to have the refusal of an employment.