noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
outright
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Heads responded to advisory views of good practice in different ways, ranging from unthinking conformity to outright rejection .
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Petitions may be either for the outright rejection of the order or its amendment.
total
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The Court also ignored our members' total rejection of any question of Performance Related Pay.
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It hardly needs to be said that there is also a total rejection of moral principles.
■ NOUN
letter
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Then a rejection letter arrived from Streatham branch - because he wasn't a union member.
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This will involve the sending of rejection letters or invitations to interview detailing time, place and other arrangements.
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The screwed up remains of another airline's rejection letter lay on the bar next to her cigarettes.
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The orange river picked up the rejection letter and open cigarette packet in its path and floated them over on to X's lap.
■ VERB
follow
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What the Department will do now following Mr Davis' rejection of their decision remains to be seen.
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But, as in these early years, what followed rejection was a deeper determination to move on and continue.
involve
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A communicative approach, properly conceived, does not involve the rejection of grammar.
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Successful job hunting takes time and will involve some rejections .
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Discipleship can involve suffering, rejection and death.
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The pressure on the welders would have involved a very high rejection rate - a problem overcome by robot welding.
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This will involve the sending of rejection letters or invitations to interview detailing time, place and other arrangements.
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It may involve a rejection of the idea of evolution altogether.
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Acceptance of this position involves rejection of the view that the end justifies the means.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Eugenie's rejection of Vincent had a profound impact on his work.
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He faced rejection after rejection before finding a job.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Acceptance of criticism leads to high standards, rejection of substandard performance.
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As Kate was terrified of rejection , she never had an honest relationship with a lover.
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Everyone he had shown it to had described it as brilliant, and by all accounts it was; rejection hurt.
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Miranda was puzzled and humiliated by Adam's rejection .
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Much that appears as rejection of the legitimacy of the state is in fact quite the reverse.
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Neither rejection , protest nor availability prepares us for the demands which celibacy is making on us nowadays.
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The tests reported in table 3.1 may be insufficiently powerful to allow rejection .
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Then a rejection letter arrived from Streatham branch - because he wasn't a union member.