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    [Noun]  | "re*jec*tion" | \ ri-ˈjek-shən \


    1: the action of rejecting : the state of being rejected

    2: an immune response in which foreign tissue (as of a skin graft or transplanted organ) is attacked by immune system components of the recipient organism

    3: something rejected

    Origin: 15th century ;

    [Noun]  | "rejection slip" 


    1: a printed slip enclosed with a rejected manuscript returned by an editor to an author

    Origin: 1894 ;

    [Noun]  | "rejection letter" 


    1: a letter informing a person of being turned down (as for a job, school enrollment, etc.) : a letter saying that something a person has written, made, etc., has been turned down (as for publication)

    [Verb]  | "re*ject" | \ ri-ˈjekt \


    1: to refuse to accept, consider, submit to, take for some purpose, or use

    2: to refuse to hear, receive, or admit : rebuff, repel

    3: to refuse as lover or spouse

    Origin: 15th century ;

     Middle English, from Latin rejectus, past participle of reicere, from re- + jacere to throw ;

    [Noun]  | "rejection" 


    1: a refusal to confirm the truth of a statement;


      * e.g., " ... made a flat rejection of the charges against him "




    2: an unwillingness to grant something asked for;


      * e.g., " ... the judge's swift rejection of the lawyer's request for a recess "




    3: something separated from a group or lot for not being as good as the others;


      * e.g., " ... that pile is for rejections, and this one is for applications we'll be accepting "



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    [Verb]  | "reject" 


    1: to be unwilling to grant;


      * e.g., " ... rejected his request for time off "




    2: to declare not to be true;


      * e.g., " ... I reject the claim that I have ever lied about that "




    3: to get rid of as useless or unwanted;


      * e.g., " ... sorted through the nuts and rejected any that had cracked shells or were shattered "




     

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