reject

reject
♦♦
rejects, rejecting, rejected
(The verb is pronounced [[t]rɪʤe̱kt[/t]]. The noun is pronounced [[t]ri͟ːʤekt[/t]].)
1) VERB If you reject something such as a proposal, a request, or an offer, you do not accept it or you do not agree to it.

[V n] The British government is expected to reject the idea of state subsidy for a new high speed railway...

Seventeen publishers rejected the manuscript before Jenks saw its potential.

Derived words:
rejection [[t]rɪʤe̱kʃ(ə)n[/t]] plural N-VAR oft N of n

The rejection of such initiatives by no means indicates that voters are unconcerned about the environment.

2) VERB If you reject a belief or a political system, you refuse to believe in it or to live by its rules.

[V n] ...the children of Eastern European immigrants who had rejected their parents' political and religious beliefs.

Derived words:
rejection N-VAR

His rejection of our values is far more complete than that of D. H. Lawrence.

3) VERB If someone is rejected for a job or course of study, it is not offered to them.

[be V-ed] One of my most able students was rejected by another university. [Also V n]

Derived words:
rejection N-COUNT

Be prepared for lots of rejections before you land a job.

4) VERB If someone rejects another person who expects affection from them, they are cold and unfriendly towards them.

[V n] You make friends with people and then make unreasonable demands so that they reject you.

[V n] ...people who had been rejected by their lovers.

Derived words:
rejection N-VAR

These feelings of rejection and hurt remain.

5) VERB If a person's body rejects something such as a new heart that has been transplanted into it, it tries to attack and destroy it.

[V n] It was feared his body was rejecting a kidney he received in a transplant four years ago.

Derived words:
rejection N-VAR

...a special drug which stops rejection of transplanted organs.

6) VERB If a machine rejects a coin that you put in it, the coin comes out and the machine does not work.
7) N-COUNT A reject is a product that has not been accepted for use or sale, because there is something wrong with it.

English dictionary. 2008.

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