REJECTION


Meaning of REJECTION in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

outright

Heads responded to advisory views of good practice in different ways, ranging from unthinking conformity to outright rejection .

Petitions may be either for the outright rejection of the order or its amendment.

total

The Court also ignored our members' total rejection of any question of Performance Related Pay.

It hardly needs to be said that there is also a total rejection of moral principles.

■ NOUN

letter

Then a rejection letter arrived from Streatham branch - because he wasn't a union member.

This will involve the sending of rejection letters or invitations to interview detailing time, place and other arrangements.

The screwed up remains of another airline's rejection letter lay on the bar next to her cigarettes.

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

What the Department will do now following Mr Davis' rejection of their decision remains to be seen.

But, as in these early years, what followed rejection was a deeper determination to move on and continue.

involve

A communicative approach, properly conceived, does not involve the rejection of grammar.

Successful job hunting takes time and will involve some rejections .

Discipleship can involve suffering, rejection and death.

The pressure on the welders would have involved a very high rejection rate - a problem overcome by robot welding.

This will involve the sending of rejection letters or invitations to interview detailing time, place and other arrangements.

It may involve a rejection of the idea of evolution altogether.

Acceptance of this position involves rejection of the view that the end justifies the means.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Eugenie's rejection of Vincent had a profound impact on his work.

He faced rejection after rejection before finding a job.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Acceptance of criticism leads to high standards, rejection of substandard performance.

As Kate was terrified of rejection , she never had an honest relationship with a lover.

Everyone he had shown it to had described it as brilliant, and by all accounts it was; rejection hurt.

Miranda was puzzled and humiliated by Adam's rejection .

Much that appears as rejection of the legitimacy of the state is in fact quite the reverse.

Neither rejection , protest nor availability prepares us for the demands which celibacy is making on us nowadays.

The tests reported in table 3.1 may be insufficiently powerful to allow rejection .

Then a rejection letter arrived from Streatham branch - because he wasn't a union member.

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