 rejection |
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| 1. | [ noun ] the act of rejecting something | |
| Examples: | "his proposals were met with rejection" |
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| Related terms: | act avoidance abandonment renunciation brush-off banishment nonacceptance displacement refuse | |
| 2. | [ noun ] the state of being rejected | |
| Related terms: | acceptance situation excommunication reprobation disfavor apostasy | |
| 3. | [ noun ] (medicine) immunological response that refuses to accept substances or organisms that are recognized as foreign | |
| Examples: | "rejection of the transplanted liver" |
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| Related terms: | organic_phenomenon medicine | |
| 4. | [ noun ] the speech act of rejecting | |
| Related terms: | speech_act repudiation short_shrift rebuff | |
| Similar spelling: |
resection reject resect rejective rejected recusation |
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