- the act of refusing to accept or consider something
- Her proposal met with unanimous rejection.
- the act of refusing to accept somebody for a job, position, etc.
- a rejection letter (= a letter in which you are told, for example, that you have not been accepted for a job)
- the decision not to use, sell, publish, etc. something because its quality is not good enough
- I've had letters of rejection from several publishers.
- Everyone from George Orwell to JK Rowling has had rejection slips (= formal notice from a publisher that a book, etc. is rejected).
- the failure of somebody's body to accept a new organ after a transplant operation
- He had a second lung transplant after rejection of the first.
- failure to give a person or an animal enough love or care
- painful feelings of rejection
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