Usually means: Hesitation to accept or proceed.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. reluctance: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. reluctance: Merriam-Webster
  3. reluctance: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. reluctance: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. reluctance: Collins English Dictionary
  6. reluctance: Vocabulary.com
  7. Reluctance, reluctance: Wordnik
  8. reluctance: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. reluctance: Wiktionary
  10. reluctance: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. reluctance: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. reluctance: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Reluctance, reluctance: Dictionary.com
  14. reluctance: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. reluctance: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Reluctance: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Reluctance: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. reluctance: Rhymezone
  19. Reluctance: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. reluctance: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. reluctance: FreeDictionary.org
  22. reluctance: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. reluctance: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. reluctance: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. reluctance: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. reluctance: Urban Dictionary

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. reluctance: Electronics
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  4. Reliance Electric motor terms (No longer online)
  5. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (reluctance)

noun:  Unwillingness to do something.
noun:  Hesitancy in taking some action.
noun:  (archaic) Defiance, disobedience.
noun:  (physics) That property of a magnetic circuit analogous to resistance in an electric circuit.

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