Meaning

4 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The act of rejecting.

    My offer was met with rejection

    Ablehnung

    отка́зotkáz, отклоне́ниеotklonénije, неприя́тиеneprijátije

    відмо́ваvidmóva, відхи́ленняvidxýlennja

    the act of rejecting something

  2. (countable, uncountable)The state of being rejected.

    the state of being rejected

  3. (countable, uncountable)A blocked shot.

  4. (countable, uncountable)An immune reaction of a host organism to a foreign biological tissue, such as in an organ transplant.

Examples

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  1. Tom doesn't take rejection very well.

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  2. I'm afraid it's a rejection letter.

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  3. Every successful writer has a drawer full of rejection letters.

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  4. I couldn't accept rejection.

    deIch konnte mich mit Zurückweisungen nicht abfinden.

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  5. Tom took the rejection hard.

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Translations

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Origin

From French réjection or directly from Latin reiectiōnem, accusative of Latin reiectiō. Di

From French réjection or directly from Latin reiectiōnem, accusative of Latin reiectiō. Displaced native Old English āworpennes (literally “thrown-out-ness”).

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