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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
rejection
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.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rejection

Rejection \Re*jec"tion\ (r?-j?k"sh?n), n. [L. rejectio: cf. F. r['e]jection.] Act of rejecting, or state of being rejected.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
rejection

1550s, from French réjection (16c.) or directly from Latin reiectionem (nominative reiectio) "act of throwing back," noun of action from past participle stem of reicere (see reject). In 19c., it also could mean "excrement." Medical transplant sense is from 1954. In the psychological sense, relating to parenting, from 1931.

Wiktionary
rejection

n. 1 The act of rejecting. 2 The state of being rejected. 3 (context sports English) a blocked shot

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WordNet
rejection

  1. n. the act of rejecting something; "his proposals were met with rejection"

  2. the state of being rejected [ant: acceptance]

  3. (medicine) an immunological response that refuses to accept substances or organisms that are recognized as foreign; "rejection of the transplanted liver"

  4. the speech act of rejecting

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Wikipedia
Rejection (song)

"Rejection" is a song by French DJ and record producer Martin Solveig. The song was released in the France as a CD single on 2 July 2007. It was released as the fourth and final single from his second studio album Hedonist (2005). The song was written and produced by Martin Solveig. The song has peaked to number 34 on the French Singles Chart.

Rejection

Rejection, or the verb reject, may refer to:

  • Social rejection, in psychology, an interpersonal situation that occurs when a person or group of people exclude an individual from a social relationship
  • Transplant rejection, in medicine, the immune reaction of a host organism to a foreign biological tissue, such as in a transplantation
  • In telecommunications, rejection is the receiving of the desired signal without interference from another undesired one.
  • In basketball, rejection is a slang term for a block
  • In mathematics, the rejection of a vector a from a vector b is the component of a perpendicular to b, as opposed to its projection, which is parallel to b.
  • In statistics, rejection of a null hypothesis in favour of an alternative hypothesis when doing a hypothesis test.
  • In statistics, rejection sampling is a technique used to generate observations from a distribution
  • In zoology, the shunning of one or more animals in a litter
  • A song by Martin Solveig
  • Perfection, Nevada, a fictional town in the Tremors film and T.V. series, originally named Rejection
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Usage examples of "rejection".

The man who has become spiritual by acknowledgment of God, and wise by rejection of the proprium, sees divine providence in the world as a whole and in each and all things in it.

Any rejection by the Anabasis must be confirmed and approved through the office of the Solar Ambassador.

His use of final vowels after the noun, and his rejection of the pronoun, which apocope in the Arabic verb renders necessary in the everyday speech of the people, told the Master he was listening to some archaic, uncorrupted form of the language.

We can justify any apologia simply by calling life a successive rejection of personalities.

It was not reached by an induction of facts, a study of phenomena, or any fair process of reasoning, but was arbitrarily created to rescue a dogma from otherwise inevitable rejection.

She reported her rejection to CenCom, with the recommendation that she thought Chria Chance had the proper mental equipment to partner a ship in the Military Courier Service.

The liquor seemed to have an immediate effect, increasing my level of drunkenness, and with it my capacity for rejection.

The fem part was there, the stiffening, the bodily rejection, but there was that other response, too-hot, almost welcoming.

Note the insidious onset of late rejection after cessation of globulin therapy.

Benny was so angry at her rejection of his beloved that he grabbed a knife again, this time threatening to kill himself if she did not agree to their marriage.

Mark took the rejection with his usual good humor, mostly because, Jennet supposed, he did not believe she meant what she said.

And he knew that Kamila saw the rejection of her body as a measure of the extent of his love for another woman.

The rejection had infuriated Kinder, but he had agreed to continue in his job for two more years if his contract was changed.

Unfazed by his rejection, the big ork joined the others of his kind, with shoulder-slapping and arm-punching all around.

Vulnerable, nearly petrified by a fear Of rejection, she summoned courage and boldly reached out, letting her hand glide down his chest to the waist of his jeans, pausing where bare skin met denim, then drifting on further, down over button and placket and zipper, feeling him under her hand.