The verb is pronounced /rɪdʒekt/. The noun is pronounced /ri:dʒekt/.
( rejected)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
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.
The British government is expected to reject the idea of state subsidy for a new high speed railway...
VERB : V n
• re‧jec‧tion
(rejections)
The rejection of such initiatives indicates that voters are unconcerned about the environment.
N-VAR : oft N of n
2.
If you reject a belief or a political system, you refuse to believe in it or to live by its rules.
...the children of Eastern European immigrants who had rejected their parents’ political and religious beliefs.
VERB : V n
• re‧jec‧tion
...his rejection of our values.
N-VAR
3.
If someone is rejected for a job or course of study, it is not offered to them.
One of my most able students was rejected by another university.
VERB : be V-ed , also V n
• re‧jec‧tion
Be prepared for lots of rejections before you land a job.
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4.
If someone rejects another person who expects affection from them, they are cold and unfriendly towards them.
...people who had been rejected by their lovers.
VERB : V n
• re‧jec‧tion
These feelings of rejection and hurt remain.
N-VAR
5.
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.
It was feared his body was rejecting a kidney he received in a transplant four years ago.
VERB : V n
• re‧jec‧tion
...a special drug which stops rejection of transplanted organs.
N-VAR
6.
If a machine rejects a coin that you put in it, the coin comes out and the machine does not work.
VERB
7.
A reject is a product that has not been accepted for use or sale, because there is something wrong with it.
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