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Definition of Reject

1. Noun. The person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality.

2. Verb. Refuse to accept or acknowledge. "The journal rejected the student's paper"

3. Verb. Refuse to accept. "They reject the money "; "He refused my offer of hospitality"

4. Verb. Deem wrong or inappropriate. "I disapprove of her child rearing methods"

5. Verb. Reject with contempt. "She spurned his advances"

6. Verb. Resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ. "His body rejected the liver of the donor"

7. Verb. Refuse entrance or membership. "Black people were often rejected by country clubs"

8. Verb. Dismiss from consideration or a contest. "This possibility can be eliminated from our consideration"

Definition of Reject

1. v. t. To cast from one; to throw away; to discard.

Definition of Reject

1. Verb. (transitive) to refuse to accept ¹

2. Verb. (sports) to block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court. ¹

3. Noun. Something that is rejected. ¹

4. Noun. (derogatory slang) An unpopular person. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Reject

1. to refuse to accept, consider, or make use of [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Reject

reiters reive reived reiver reivers reives reiving rejacket rejacketed rejacketing

rejackets rejail rejailed rejailing rejails reject (current term) rejectable rejectamenta rejectaneous rejected

rejected takeoff rejectee rejectees rejecter rejecters rejectest rejecteth rejecting rejectingly rejection

Literary usage of Reject

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Constitutional History of England Since the Accession of George the by Thomas Erskine May (1862)
"But if the Lords might not amend money bills, could they not reject them ? ... The Commons had then denied Lords to reject the right of amendment, ..."

2. The Constitutional History of England Since the Accession of George the Third by Thomas Erskine May (1899)
"But if the Lords might not amend money bills, could they not reject them ? ... The Commons had then denied Lords to reject the right of amendment, ..."

3. The Constitutional History of England Since the Accession of George the Third by Thomas Erskine May (1899)
"But if the Lords might not amend money bills, could they not reject them ? This very question was dis- pow cussed in 1671. The Commons had then denied Lords ..."

4. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1904)
"Nor is it error, in the trial of euch a case, to reject evidence that the wife was an habitual ... It was therefore entirely proper to reject this evidence, ..."

5. The Constitutional History of England Since the Accession of George the by Thomas Erskine May (1861)
"Power of But if the Lords might not amend money bills, could to°n.iect a they not reject them ? This very question was dis- money bill, cussed in 1671. ..."

6. Bulletin by Federal Board for Vocational Education, United States (1917)
"XVII. la the Federal board empowered to reject a State plan because the ... The Federal board is empowered to reject any plan not in conformity with the ..."

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