reject
♦♦ re|ject (rejects rejecting rejected)
The verb is pronounced /rɪdʒ'ekt/ The noun is pronounced /r'iːdʒekt/
1 [VERB] V n
If you reject something such as a proposal, a request, or an offer, you do not accept it or you do not agree to it.
The British government is expected to reject the idea of state subsidy for a new high speed railway...
● rejection [N-VAR] oft N of n
The rejection of such initiatives indicates that voters are unconcerned about the environment.
2 [VERB] V n
If you reject a belief or a political system, you refuse to believe in it or to live by its rules.
...the children of Eastern European immigrants who had rejected their parents' political and religious beliefs.
● rejection [N-VAR]
...his rejection of our values.
3 [VERB] be V-ed, also V n
If someone is rejected for a job or course of study, it is not offered to them.
One of my most able students was rejected by another university.
● rejection [N-COUNT]
Be prepared for lots of rejections before you land a job.
4 [VERB] V n
If someone rejects another person who expects affection from them, they are cold and unfriendly towards them.
...people who had been rejected by their lovers.
● rejection [N-VAR]
These feelings of rejection and hurt remain.
5 [VERB] V n
If a person's body rejects something such as a new heart that has been transplanted into it, it tries to attack and destroy it.
It was feared his body was rejecting a kidney he received in a transplant four years ago.
● rejection [N-VAR]
...a special drug which stops rejection of transplanted organs.
6 [VERB]
If a machine rejects a coin that you put in it, the coin comes out and the machine does not work.
7 [N-COUNT]
A reject is a product that has not been accepted for use or sale, because there is something wrong with it.
The verb is pronounced /rɪdʒ'ekt/ The noun is pronounced /r'iːdʒekt/
1 [VERB] V n
If you reject something such as a proposal, a request, or an offer, you do not accept it or you do not agree to it.
The British government is expected to reject the idea of state subsidy for a new high speed railway...
● rejection [N-VAR] oft N of n
The rejection of such initiatives indicates that voters are unconcerned about the environment.
2 [VERB] V n
If you reject a belief or a political system, you refuse to believe in it or to live by its rules.
...the children of Eastern European immigrants who had rejected their parents' political and religious beliefs.
● rejection [N-VAR]
...his rejection of our values.
3 [VERB] be V-ed, also V n
If someone is rejected for a job or course of study, it is not offered to them.
One of my most able students was rejected by another university.
● rejection [N-COUNT]
Be prepared for lots of rejections before you land a job.
4 [VERB] V n
If someone rejects another person who expects affection from them, they are cold and unfriendly towards them.
...people who had been rejected by their lovers.
● rejection [N-VAR]
These feelings of rejection and hurt remain.
5 [VERB] V n
If a person's body rejects something such as a new heart that has been transplanted into it, it tries to attack and destroy it.
It was feared his body was rejecting a kidney he received in a transplant four years ago.
● rejection [N-VAR]
...a special drug which stops rejection of transplanted organs.
6 [VERB]
If a machine rejects a coin that you put in it, the coin comes out and the machine does not work.
7 [N-COUNT]
A reject is a product that has not been accepted for use or sale, because there is something wrong with it.