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re·jec·tion

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. rejectionnoun

    the act of rejecting something

    "his proposals were met with rejection"

  2. rejectionnoun

    the state of being rejected

  3. rejectionnoun

    (medicine) an immunological response that refuses to accept substances or organisms that are recognized as foreign

    "rejection of the transplanted liver"

  4. rejectionnoun

    the speech act of rejecting

Wiktionary

  1. rejectionnoun

    The act of rejecting.

  2. rejectionnoun

    The state of being rejected.

  3. rejectionnoun

    a blocked shot

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Rejectionnoun

    The act of casting off or throwing aside.

    Etymology: rejectio, Lat.

    The rejection I use of experiments, is infinite; but if an experiment be probable and of great use, I receive it. Francis Bacon.

    Medicines urinative do not work by rejection and indigestion, as solutive do. Francis Bacon.

Wikipedia

  1. Rejection

    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.

ChatGPT

  1. rejection

    Rejection refers to the act of dismissing, refusing or not accepting something, someone, or an idea. It can be experienced in various forms, such as professional rejection (job applications), personal rejection (relationships), or during creative pursuits (manuscripts or proposals). Furthermore, rejection can also denote an immune system's response towards foreign substances, like organ transplants.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Rejectionnoun

    act of rejecting, or state of being rejected

  2. Etymology: [L. rejectio: cf. F. rjection.]

British National Corpus

  1. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'rejection' in Nouns Frequency: #2315

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of rejection in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of rejection in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of rejection in a Sentence

  1. President Barack Obama:

    What greater rejection of those who would tear down our world than marshaling our best efforts to save it.

  2. The State Department:

    To be clear: Kremlin approval of this appeal would amount to the Russian government’s wholesale rejection of its commitments under the Minsk agreements, enactment of this resolution would further undermine Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, constitute a gross violation of international law, call into further question Russia’s stated commitment to continue to engage in diplomacy to achieve a peaceful resolution of this crisis.

  3. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy:

    Speaker Pelosi's rejection of the Republican nominees to serve on the committee and self-appointment of members who share Speaker Pelosi pre-conceived narrative will not yield a serious investigation.

  4. Jeff Sessions:

    Too many politicians and pundits here in America have been woefully oblivious to, or in some cases complicit in, what is going on around us, the failed European Union experiment, and Great Britain’s rejection of it, must serve as a wake-up call for all of us in America.

  5. Tonatiuh Guillen:

    There's ... a government structure of bipolar migration policy, there are factors of attraction and rejection, and we're in the sandwich right now.

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