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1
action or behavior that is done in return to other action or behavior
- my response to my first boxing defeat was to train even harder
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2
something spoken or written in reaction especially to a question
- the real estate office's unhelpful response to my question about what houses in the area are renting for
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The first known use of response was in the 14th century
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