Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun plural Objects or parts rejected from a collection, as the coarse and least desirable fibers of a fiber-plant.
- noun The act of rejecting, of throwing off or away, or of casting off or forsaking; refusal to accept or grant: as, the rejection of what is worthless; the rejection of a request.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Act of rejecting, or state of being rejected.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
rejecting . - noun The state of being rejected.
- noun sports a
blocked shot
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the state of being rejected
- noun the act of rejecting something
- noun (medicine) an immunological response that refuses to accept substances or organisms that are recognized as foreign
- noun the speech act of rejecting
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Examples
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When it was rejected later, without the giver there to react, the rejection is a pure expression of right and wrong: clarity.
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On Tuesday he provided the first details about one of those brands, called Public, which he described as a rejection of much of his past work.
Hawaii Hotel Sues Marriott Alexandra Berzon 2011
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They seldom say "no" because they fear disapproval or what they define as rejection.
Tracey Marks, M.D.: Why Are We So Stressed Out? M.D. Tracey Marks 2011
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Implicit in this rejection is the notion that being colonized by the British was a cake walk - cricket, polo, tea parties, and quite walks in the park - rather than some brutal foreign colonial power exploiting anotherforeignland for the benefit of King and Queen, or as Hitler would have said, the fatherland.
Archive 2009-04-01 John Storhm 2009
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They seldom say "no" because they fear disapproval or what they define as rejection.
Tracey Marks, M.D.: Why Are We So Stressed Out? M.D. Tracey Marks 2011
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They seldom say "no" because they fear disapproval or what they define as rejection.
Tracey Marks, M.D.: Why Are We So Stressed Out? M.D. Tracey Marks 2011
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They seldom say "no" because they fear disapproval or what they define as rejection.
Tracey Marks, M.D.: Why Are We So Stressed Out? M.D. Tracey Marks 2011
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They seldom say "no" because they fear disapproval or what they define as rejection.
Tracey Marks, M.D.: Why Are We So Stressed Out? M.D. Tracey Marks 2011
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They seldom say "no" because they fear disapproval or what they define as rejection.
Tracey Marks, M.D.: Why Are We So Stressed Out? M.D. Tracey Marks 2011
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Implicit in this rejection is the notion that being colonized by the British was a cake walk - cricket, polo, tea parties, and quite walks in the park - rather than some brutal foreign colonial power exploiting anotherforeignland for the benefit of King and Queen, or as Hitler would have said, the fatherland.
Gandhian Nonviolence John Storhm 2009
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