Meaning of regrexit | Babel Free

Definitions

A feeling of regret about Brexit taking place, or about having voted for it.

UK, uncountable

Examples

“Labour has one chance now. To emerge within weeks as Britain's centrist "Regrexit Unionist" party. If it did that, even I might forgive it.”

“There are leave voters who confessed to reporters that they never thought their side would actually win, that their vote had only ever been intended as a protest, presumed to be safe because surely everyone else would vote the other way. […] A Twitter user came up with a new coinage for this rapid form of buyer's remorse: Regrexit. […] When some of those leave voters see that Brexit has not brought back the good jobs of old, that housing is still in desperately short supply and that a migrant family still lives round the corner, the Regrexit sentiment will grow.”

“From reports, the UK is moving rapidly from Brexit to Regrexit.”

“In the spirit of Brexit, these attitudes even have their own media-friendly nickname: Bregret or Regrexit.”

“There were many reasons for the Leave vote, and Regrexit is now gaining momentum.”

“Within a few days, petitions to re-do the vote emerged with more than four million signatures, known as 'Regrexit.'”

“There's a chance, especially with the 'Regrexit' sentiment surfacing, that the U.K. will still be part of the EU in two years.”

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