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Etymology

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From LateMiddle Englishrejecten, fromLatinrēiectus, past participle ofreicere(“to throw back”), fromre-(“back”) +iacere(“to throw”). Displaced nativeOld Englishāweorpan(literally“to throw out”).

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reject (third-person singular simple presentrejects,present participlerejecting,simple past and past participlerejected)

  1. (transitive) Torefuse toaccept; to forswear.
    She evenrejected my improved offer.
    • 1897 December (indicated as1898),Winston Churchill, chapter IV, inThe Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.:The Macmillan Company; London:Macmillan & Co., Ltd.,→OCLC:
      One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, afterrejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.
  2. (basketball) Toblock ashot, especially if it sends theball off thecourt.
  3. (transitive) Torefuse aromanticadvance.
    I've beenrejected three times this week.
    • 2011,Lenka, Ben H. Allen, “Roll with the Punches”, inTwo‎[1], performed by Lenka:
      It's unexpected / It usually is / When you'rerejected / Or you take a hit

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(refuse to accept):

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Translations

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to refuse to accept
to refuse a romantic advance
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Noun

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reject (pluralrejects)

  1. Something that isrejected.
    • 1996, Jim Blinn,Jim Blinn's Corner: A Trip Down the Graphics Pipeline, page127:
      Almost all line segments will be trivial accepts or trivialrejects, so the above covers the vast majority of cases.
  2. (derogatory, slang) Anunpopularperson.
  3. (colloquial) Arejecteddefectiveproduct in aproduction line.
    • 2001,Salman Rushdie,Fury: A Novel, London:Jonathan Cape,→ISBN,page 6:
      In all of India, China, Africa, and much of the southern American continent, those who had the leisure and wallet for fashion[…] would have killed for the street merchandise of Manhattan, as also for[…] thereject china and designer-label bargains to be found in downtown discount emporia.
  4. (aviation) Arejected takeoff.

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Translations

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something that is rejected
slang: an unpopular person
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