Definition of reject in English:

reject

verb rɪˈdʒɛktrəˈdʒɛkt

[with object]

1Dismiss as inadequate, unacceptable, or faulty.
拒绝，抵制
union negotiators rejected a 1.5 per cent pay award
工会的谈判代表们拒绝接受1.5%的工资增长幅度。
these explanations of criminal behaviour have been rejected by sociologists
社会学家们不接受对犯罪行为的这些解释。
Example sentencesExamples
- However, the union has rejected this because it believes it is worth nothing at present.
- However, pressure to provide a drug rehabilitation programme as an alternative to dismissal was rejected.
- 54.87 per cent of French voters reject the European Union's new constitution.
- The wine must pass an analytical test and is blind tasted by a panel which may reject wines judged faulty or atypical, and often does.
- In total, slightly more than 75 percent of union members voted to reject the contract.
- Not only was there therefore no unfair dismissal but, since there was no dismissal, the claim for wrongful dismissal was also rejected.
- Kelly, the US officials said, rejected the threat as unacceptable as a means to resolve the nuclear crisis.
- His attitude varied from rejecting such attempts as inadequate to according them the status of ‘fictions’.
- Local unions rejected the proposal which could have undermined their position in the entire plant.
- Fourth, typing is more distancing than talking: it is easier to dismiss or reject a respondent textually than verbally.
- However, the unions rejected the claim that the proposed redundancy payment increases would lead to more job losses.
- The judge had found that all reasonable doctors would have avoided the danger and that any other approach was unacceptable, rejecting the contrary opinion of some of the experts.
- Well there was a claim similar to that made in Israel that was rejected and dismissed by a court about six months ago.
- The tribunal rejected the unfair dismissal claim, saying the email comment was not fitting to someone in his position as a manager.
- He was part of a Saskatchewan delegation that visited several European capitals last October to get the European Union to reject the ban.
- This was overwhelming rejected by union members who stated they were holding out for a four per cent increase.
- An immediate, but quickly rejected option is to drop the selling price by 10 percent.
- Judge Maddocks rejected that contention and dismissed the appellant's appeal.
- Should the union accept or reject the Communist party's leading role in government?
- The Palestinians have rejected the release as inadequate and want thousands freed.
Synonyms
banish, put away, set aside, lay aside, abandon, have done with, drop, disregard, brush off, shrug off, forget, think no more of, pay no heed to, put out of one's mind
1. 1.1 Refuse to agree to (a request)
  拒绝接受（请求），不同意
  an application to hold a pop concert at the club was rejected
  在俱乐部举办流行音乐会的申请被拒绝了。
  Example sentencesExamples
  She refuses to yield to the advances of her husband's friend Luka and rejects his request to marry him.
  Unfortunately the Irish Medical Organisation has rejected this request in writing.
  I never even thought about asking why or rejecting her request.
  Earlier on Monday, Millette rejected a defence request for a new trial.
  In rejecting our request to attend the meeting, the narrow ‘Majorityism’ definition of democracy was espoused.
  On application, the application was rejected and a request for a review of an area review officer was forwarded to the office.
  The judge rejected the request for an adjournment and the renewed application insofar as it was made.
  They also wanted a change of venue but the judge rejected both requests.
  The judge rejects a media request to open more of jury selection to the public.
  It was announced minutes after an appeals court rejected his request for an execution delay.
  It also levied transaction charges, including an enhanced charge of £35 per item if it rejected any request for payment.
  The race commissioner, however, rejected their request, upholding Dumaresq's legal right to race.
  Fr Cashman, has rejected a request that he retires from the diocese and wants to remain on as a practising curate in the parish.
  He also invoked the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to reject the requests.
  I have not spoken with Tim since last Thursday before the court of appeals rejected our last request for a stay.
  In a real bombshell, Shirley rejects the romantic request, and this sets off a sad series of events.
  The government board hearing the requests has rejected its application twice before.
  Mr Chirac has flatly rejected requests to accept a summons for questioning by magistrates in the travel scandal.
  He rejected their request for limits of Chinese imports of welded steel pipes.
  The judge also rejected a media request to televise the high profile trial.
  Synonyms
  turn down, refuse, decline, say no to
  dismiss, spurn
  informal give the thumbs down to, give the red light to, give something a miss
  British informal knock back
  rare negative
2. 1.2 Fail to show due affection or concern for (someone); rebuff.
  嫌弃，厌弃
  she didn't want him to feel he had been rejected after his sister was born
  她不想让他在妹妹出生后感觉自己被冷落。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Sharon herself made the observation that she shouldn't be rejecting people because of their appearance given her hair in its current condition.
  In several studies, women emphasized wanting to satisfy a partner's needs, promote intimacy, avoid tension in a relationship, and avoid rejecting a partner.
  Well, you've been exploring the relationship between rejection and aggression in the lab, now first of all you actually have to somehow reject people in an experimental setting.
  God will never reject me but people may.
  She hated her sister's vanity and secretly hoped Lucas would reject her.
  Sometimes, says Mr. Vijayraj, young women are rejected because they are disabled.
  But she rejected him and married a decrepit alcoholic, years older than herself.
  She was rejected and abandoned by her own family, and she was desperate.
  They realised that being evil is no matter because people will always reject you.
  She rejects him after he cannot get into the army, but when she is kidnapped along with his train, he single-handedly attempts to get the train back.
  ‘I say to you, you cannot bring your same-sex partner to the prom, we are not rejecting you as a person,’ Martin said.
  You're probably thinking, if I don't want people to like me I shouldn't wear stuff like this, but let's just say I like rejecting people.
  Michael had the tainted innocence of an outcast, but I knew he was better than the very people who would reject him.
  The people will worship him; they will also reject him.
  Would people reject me just because I'm too pale, my nose is too long, and my hair too light?
  In doing so we cut ourselves off from every aspect of our life - from other people who will reject us, from our wicked past, our hopeless future and from nature itself.
  Her parents had been brought in from outside and after Saraswati was born her mother rejected her.
  Her rejecting him only made his desire to gain her affection that much stronger.
  He returns to his daughter much later in her life, and she initially rejects him.
  This might eventually cause others to reject the depressed person and to avoid future interactions.
  Synonyms
  rebuff, spurn, repudiate, cut off, cast off, cast aside, discard, jettison, abandon, desert, turn one's back on, have nothing (more) to do with, wash one's hands of, cast out, shut out, exclude, shun, cold-shoulder, give someone the cold shoulder
  ostracize, blackball, blacklist, avoid, give a wide berth to, ignore, snub, cut dead, keep at arm's length, leave out in the cold
  British send to Coventry
  North American disfellowship
  informal give someone the brush-off, kick someone in the teeth, freeze out, hand someone the frozen mitt
  informal, dated give someone the go-by
  British informal give someone the push, give someone the elbow, give someone the big E, bin off, blank
  North American informal give someone the air
  dated cut
  Christianity excommunicate
  archaic forsake
3. 1.3Medicine Show an immune response to (a transplanted organ or tissue) so that it fails to survive.
  〔医〕排斥（移植器官或组织）
  his body could begin to reject the implanted heart
  Example sentencesExamples
  A mix of immunosuppressive therapies is typically used to prevent a recipient's body from rejecting a transplanted organ.
  Immunosuppressants interfere with the body's immune system - making it less capable of rejecting the transplanted kidney.
  You'll need to follow a lifelong regimen of drug therapy after an organ transplant to prevent your body from rejecting the new organ.
  The results also show that female heart transplant patients were more likely than men to reject the organ.
  In many instances, bodies reject transplant organs because their immune systems see them as foreign tissue.

noun ˈriːdʒɛktˈriˌdʒɛkt

1A person or thing dismissed as inadequate or unacceptable.
（因不合格而）被拒绝的人；（因不合格或不受欢迎而）被拒的货品
some of the team's rejects have gone on to prove themselves in championships
该队一些被弃队员已在冠军赛中显示自己的能力。
Example sentencesExamples
- If you imagine a society founded on the rejects of monarchical and hierarchical Europe, then what might you imagine to be the result?
- Rejected specialists are sent back with notes stating the reasons and recommending to those in charge of training units what they should stress in retraining the rejects.
- Like the spurned women of Manhattan, Howard and his fellow rejects should remind themselves they're smart, beautiful, funny, wonderful people who deserve better.
- The odd people he collects for the swim team are the rejects of regular sports and life; everyone's position as an outcast helps bond him to his teammates.
- Do you think more than a few of those rejects might have cost us some serious money had we hired them?
- What is new in today's world is how many girls feel they have to maintain a big-bucks image - or risk feeling like a total reject.
- Jesus always had a soft spot for the ‘outsiders’, the rejects, those considered not good enough, who had not made the grade, those the pious did not want to be seen with.
- As much as some might believe weblogs are the exclusive property of New York media rejects, the best use of the medium is by baseball fans, many of whom are professional writers by day and baseball nerds by night.
- No, we are the rejects, not part of any clique at all.
- Though nine out of ten are rejects, that didn't soften the sting of the final e-mail.
- I looked at each of them in turn, retaining the scowl on my face until all the rejects were gone and the guards had returned.
- They were just doing it to become social rejects.
- She banished me from her caravan but not before I had stolen her magic crystal ball and called her a reject.
- You've got to wonder if, over at ABC, they're fully appreciating the demographic significance of the first few rejects: old folks.
- And what makes you think I'm not going to be one of the rejects?
- The pain of not going back to school junior year just because I was afraid I wouldn't blend in because mother said I was a reject.
- The ones elected to these jobs, so far outside the safe walls of the home base, were usually the girls who had outlived their usefulness at home or the social rejects from the hierarchy.
- Never leave a popular classmate stranded with a social reject for group projects.
- Hardly any of them was a political reject, who had to be accommodated in a gilded cage like the Raj Bhawan.
- So sure, I feel better than these rejects who try and rate the NFL games, but then again, if I'm just a critic, sitting here giving my opinion again, how can you really think I'm right?
Synonyms
failure, loser, incompetent
(rejects), flotsam
1. 1.1 An item sold cheaply because of minor flaws.
  次品，等外品
  as modifier reject china plates
  Example sentencesExamples
  We were forced to woo younger guys or scavenge in the reject bin of the older group.
  She's a short, rather chubby woman who always dressed the same, in those long dresses and skirts that looked like she plucked them out of a reject bin.
  Chelsea barely glanced at the next shirt before deciding that it wasn't right and tossing it in the reject pile.
  So, when more than one chemist went over the same list of 2000 compounds, how similar were their reject lists?
  We sat back on the bright orange reject couch and admired our handiwork.
  There is flood of company rejects too in the market which are available at unbelievable prices.
  To the consumer this means the product is a reject in Brazil and is not fit for human consumption.
  This plutonium is a reject load being returned to British Nuclear Fuels by Japan.
  After emptying your dresser drawers, haul your rejects off for charity.
  Other buzzing entrepreneurs would zoom up and buy your rejects to peddle at flea markets.
  This is the land of export rejects and clothes come in lots from manufacturing units.
  The first condoms sold to the South African government in the early 1990s for free distribution were rejects from the European market and regularly split.
  Synonyms
  substandard article, discard, second
  (rejects), substandard goods

Derivatives

rejectable

adjective rɪˈdʒɛktəb(ə)l

If Ashley had been low and pathetic enough, she might almost have felt pity for her and her rejectable friends.
Example sentencesExamples
- Acceptance of a product will not limit a buyer's right to make a rejection relating to a rejectable product.
- We rejected the rejectable and admitted only those items that are in step with the principles we promote each month.
- It is not at all difficult to reject many of the criticisms of globalisation that have recently been made, and it is right that rejectable points should be repulsed.

rejective

adjective rɪˈdʒɛktɪv

rare

Dismissive of a proposal or idea.
rejective rage and hatred
Example sentencesExamples
- Appropriate type I error rates were determined by the sequentially rejective Bonferroni test.
- Three different modes of Si uptake have been proposed for plants having different degrees of Si accumulation, that is, active, passive, and rejective uptake.
- It's not good enough to perform a rejective revolution - ‘we want them out’ - because that's just a coup d'état, and little changes.

rejector

noun

Possible outcomes are given for a host adopting either the acceptor or rejector strategy when the parasite is a nonevictor.
Example sentencesExamples
- If one endorses the alliance but the other rejects it, the rejector gains the advantage by sacrificing the other on the ‘altar of expediency’.
- I find another magazine to send the idea to and put the rejector on my list for coming up with new ideas.
- Few are conscious and arrogant rejectors of God; instead they tend to be agnostics who feel not a little guilt at using nearby churches for baptisms, weddings and funerals but nought else.
- The crashing realisation of abandonment, unsatisfied dependency needs - be it material, emotional or spiritual - anger at the rejector, and desire to inflict damage commensurate with the suffering, creates the desire for revenge.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin reject- 'thrown back', from the verb reicere, from re- 'back' + jacere 'to throw'.

Rhymes

affect, bisect, bull-necked, collect, confect, connect, correct, defect, deflect, deject, detect, direct, effect, eject, elect, erect, expect, infect, inflect, inject, inspect, interconnect, interject, intersect, misdirect, neglect, object, perfect, project, prospect, protect, reflect, respect, resurrect, sect, select, subject, suspect, transect, unchecked, Utrecht

Definition of reject in US English:

reject

verbrəˈjektrəˈdʒɛkt

[with object]

1Dismiss as inadequate, inappropriate, or not to one's taste.
拒绝，抵制
union negotiators rejected a 1.5 percent pay increase
工会的谈判代表们拒绝接受1.5%的工资增长幅度。
Example sentencesExamples
- Judge Maddocks rejected that contention and dismissed the appellant's appeal.
- This was overwhelming rejected by union members who stated they were holding out for a four per cent increase.
- In total, slightly more than 75 percent of union members voted to reject the contract.
- Not only was there therefore no unfair dismissal but, since there was no dismissal, the claim for wrongful dismissal was also rejected.
- 54.87 per cent of French voters reject the European Union's new constitution.
- The tribunal rejected the unfair dismissal claim, saying the email comment was not fitting to someone in his position as a manager.
- However, pressure to provide a drug rehabilitation programme as an alternative to dismissal was rejected.
- An immediate, but quickly rejected option is to drop the selling price by 10 percent.
- He was part of a Saskatchewan delegation that visited several European capitals last October to get the European Union to reject the ban.
- Local unions rejected the proposal which could have undermined their position in the entire plant.
- Fourth, typing is more distancing than talking: it is easier to dismiss or reject a respondent textually than verbally.
- The wine must pass an analytical test and is blind tasted by a panel which may reject wines judged faulty or atypical, and often does.
- However, the union has rejected this because it believes it is worth nothing at present.
- Kelly, the US officials said, rejected the threat as unacceptable as a means to resolve the nuclear crisis.
- However, the unions rejected the claim that the proposed redundancy payment increases would lead to more job losses.
- His attitude varied from rejecting such attempts as inadequate to according them the status of ‘fictions’.
- The Palestinians have rejected the release as inadequate and want thousands freed.
- The judge had found that all reasonable doctors would have avoided the danger and that any other approach was unacceptable, rejecting the contrary opinion of some of the experts.
- Well there was a claim similar to that made in Israel that was rejected and dismissed by a court about six months ago.
- Should the union accept or reject the Communist party's leading role in government?
Synonyms
banish, put away, set aside, lay aside, abandon, have done with, drop, disregard, brush off, shrug off, forget, think no more of, pay no heed to, put out of one's mind
1. 1.1 Refuse to agree to (a request)
  拒绝接受（请求），不同意
  an application to hold a pop concert at the club was rejected
  在俱乐部举办流行音乐会的申请被拒绝了。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Earlier on Monday, Millette rejected a defence request for a new trial.
  It also levied transaction charges, including an enhanced charge of £35 per item if it rejected any request for payment.
  They also wanted a change of venue but the judge rejected both requests.
  The government board hearing the requests has rejected its application twice before.
  He also invoked the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to reject the requests.
  The judge rejects a media request to open more of jury selection to the public.
  In a real bombshell, Shirley rejects the romantic request, and this sets off a sad series of events.
  The race commissioner, however, rejected their request, upholding Dumaresq's legal right to race.
  I have not spoken with Tim since last Thursday before the court of appeals rejected our last request for a stay.
  She refuses to yield to the advances of her husband's friend Luka and rejects his request to marry him.
  Fr Cashman, has rejected a request that he retires from the diocese and wants to remain on as a practising curate in the parish.
  Unfortunately the Irish Medical Organisation has rejected this request in writing.
  The judge also rejected a media request to televise the high profile trial.
  Mr Chirac has flatly rejected requests to accept a summons for questioning by magistrates in the travel scandal.
  In rejecting our request to attend the meeting, the narrow ‘Majorityism’ definition of democracy was espoused.
  On application, the application was rejected and a request for a review of an area review officer was forwarded to the office.
  It was announced minutes after an appeals court rejected his request for an execution delay.
  I never even thought about asking why or rejecting her request.
  The judge rejected the request for an adjournment and the renewed application insofar as it was made.
  He rejected their request for limits of Chinese imports of welded steel pipes.
  Synonyms
  turn down, refuse, decline, say no to
2. 1.2 Fail to show due affection or concern for (someone); rebuff.
  嫌弃，厌弃
  she didn't want him to feel he had been rejected after his sister was born
  她不想让他在妹妹出生后感觉自己被冷落。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Well, you've been exploring the relationship between rejection and aggression in the lab, now first of all you actually have to somehow reject people in an experimental setting.
  Her rejecting him only made his desire to gain her affection that much stronger.
  They realised that being evil is no matter because people will always reject you.
  The people will worship him; they will also reject him.
  Would people reject me just because I'm too pale, my nose is too long, and my hair too light?
  She rejects him after he cannot get into the army, but when she is kidnapped along with his train, he single-handedly attempts to get the train back.
  But she rejected him and married a decrepit alcoholic, years older than herself.
  Michael had the tainted innocence of an outcast, but I knew he was better than the very people who would reject him.
  Sharon herself made the observation that she shouldn't be rejecting people because of their appearance given her hair in its current condition.
  God will never reject me but people may.
  This might eventually cause others to reject the depressed person and to avoid future interactions.
  ‘I say to you, you cannot bring your same-sex partner to the prom, we are not rejecting you as a person,’ Martin said.
  Sometimes, says Mr. Vijayraj, young women are rejected because they are disabled.
  You're probably thinking, if I don't want people to like me I shouldn't wear stuff like this, but let's just say I like rejecting people.
  In doing so we cut ourselves off from every aspect of our life - from other people who will reject us, from our wicked past, our hopeless future and from nature itself.
  He returns to his daughter much later in her life, and she initially rejects him.
  In several studies, women emphasized wanting to satisfy a partner's needs, promote intimacy, avoid tension in a relationship, and avoid rejecting a partner.
  She hated her sister's vanity and secretly hoped Lucas would reject her.
  Her parents had been brought in from outside and after Saraswati was born her mother rejected her.
  She was rejected and abandoned by her own family, and she was desperate.
  Synonyms
  rebuff, spurn, repudiate, cut off, cast off, cast aside, discard, jettison, abandon, desert, turn one's back on, have nothing to do with, have nothing more to do with, wash one's hands of, cast out, shut out, exclude, shun, cold-shoulder, give someone the cold shoulder
3. 1.3Medicine Show an immune response to (a transplanted organ or tissue) so that it fails to survive.
  〔医〕排斥（移植器官或组织）
  Example sentencesExamples
  In many instances, bodies reject transplant organs because their immune systems see them as foreign tissue.
  A mix of immunosuppressive therapies is typically used to prevent a recipient's body from rejecting a transplanted organ.
  The results also show that female heart transplant patients were more likely than men to reject the organ.
  You'll need to follow a lifelong regimen of drug therapy after an organ transplant to prevent your body from rejecting the new organ.
  Immunosuppressants interfere with the body's immune system - making it less capable of rejecting the transplanted kidney.

nounˈriˌdʒɛktˈrēˌjekt

A person or thing dismissed as failing to meet standards or satisfy tastes.
（因不合格而）被拒绝的人；（因不合格或不受欢迎而）被拒的货品
some of the team's rejects have gone on to prove themselves in championships
该队一些被弃队员已在冠军赛中显示自己的能力。
Example sentencesExamples
- And what makes you think I'm not going to be one of the rejects?
- She banished me from her caravan but not before I had stolen her magic crystal ball and called her a reject.
- They were just doing it to become social rejects.
- If you imagine a society founded on the rejects of monarchical and hierarchical Europe, then what might you imagine to be the result?
- What is new in today's world is how many girls feel they have to maintain a big-bucks image - or risk feeling like a total reject.
- Hardly any of them was a political reject, who had to be accommodated in a gilded cage like the Raj Bhawan.
- So sure, I feel better than these rejects who try and rate the NFL games, but then again, if I'm just a critic, sitting here giving my opinion again, how can you really think I'm right?
- Never leave a popular classmate stranded with a social reject for group projects.
- Do you think more than a few of those rejects might have cost us some serious money had we hired them?
- Jesus always had a soft spot for the ‘outsiders’, the rejects, those considered not good enough, who had not made the grade, those the pious did not want to be seen with.
- As much as some might believe weblogs are the exclusive property of New York media rejects, the best use of the medium is by baseball fans, many of whom are professional writers by day and baseball nerds by night.
- I looked at each of them in turn, retaining the scowl on my face until all the rejects were gone and the guards had returned.
- The pain of not going back to school junior year just because I was afraid I wouldn't blend in because mother said I was a reject.
- Though nine out of ten are rejects, that didn't soften the sting of the final e-mail.
- You've got to wonder if, over at ABC, they're fully appreciating the demographic significance of the first few rejects: old folks.
- Rejected specialists are sent back with notes stating the reasons and recommending to those in charge of training units what they should stress in retraining the rejects.
- Like the spurned women of Manhattan, Howard and his fellow rejects should remind themselves they're smart, beautiful, funny, wonderful people who deserve better.
- No, we are the rejects, not part of any clique at all.
- The ones elected to these jobs, so far outside the safe walls of the home base, were usually the girls who had outlived their usefulness at home or the social rejects from the hierarchy.
- The odd people he collects for the swim team are the rejects of regular sports and life; everyone's position as an outcast helps bond him to his teammates.
Synonyms
failure, loser, incompetent

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin reject- ‘thrown back’, from the verb reicere, from re- ‘back’ + jacere ‘to throw’.

词汇	reject
释义	Definition of reject in English: reject verb rɪˈdʒɛktrəˈdʒɛkt [with object] 1Dismiss as inadequate, unacceptable, or faulty. 拒绝，抵制 union negotiators rejected a 1.5 per cent pay award 工会的谈判代表们拒绝接受1.5%的工资增长幅度。 these explanations of criminal behaviour have been rejected by sociologists 社会学家们不接受对犯罪行为的这些解释。 Example sentencesExamples However, the union has rejected this because it believes it is worth nothing at present. However, pressure to provide a drug rehabilitation programme as an alternative to dismissal was rejected. 54.87 per cent of French voters reject the European Union's new constitution. The wine must pass an analytical test and is blind tasted by a panel which may reject wines judged faulty or atypical, and often does. In total, slightly more than 75 percent of union members voted to reject the contract. Not only was there therefore no unfair dismissal but, since there was no dismissal, the claim for wrongful dismissal was also rejected. Kelly, the US officials said, rejected the threat as unacceptable as a means to resolve the nuclear crisis. His attitude varied from rejecting such attempts as inadequate to according them the status of ‘fictions’. Local unions rejected the proposal which could have undermined their position in the entire plant. Fourth, typing is more distancing than talking: it is easier to dismiss or reject a respondent textually than verbally. However, the unions rejected the claim that the proposed redundancy payment increases would lead to more job losses. The judge had found that all reasonable doctors would have avoided the danger and that any other approach was unacceptable, rejecting the contrary opinion of some of the experts. Well there was a claim similar to that made in Israel that was rejected and dismissed by a court about six months ago. The tribunal rejected the unfair dismissal claim, saying the email comment was not fitting to someone in his position as a manager. He was part of a Saskatchewan delegation that visited several European capitals last October to get the European Union to reject the ban. This was overwhelming rejected by union members who stated they were holding out for a four per cent increase. An immediate, but quickly rejected option is to drop the selling price by 10 percent. Judge Maddocks rejected that contention and dismissed the appellant's appeal. Should the union accept or reject the Communist party's leading role in government? The Palestinians have rejected the release as inadequate and want thousands freed. Synonyms banish, put away, set aside, lay aside, abandon, have done with, drop, disregard, brush off, shrug off, forget, think no more of, pay no heed to, put out of one's mind 1.1 Refuse to agree to (a request) 拒绝接受（请求），不同意 an application to hold a pop concert at the club was rejected 在俱乐部举办流行音乐会的申请被拒绝了。 Example sentencesExamples She refuses to yield to the advances of her husband's friend Luka and rejects his request to marry him. Unfortunately the Irish Medical Organisation has rejected this request in writing. I never even thought about asking why or rejecting her request. Earlier on Monday, Millette rejected a defence request for a new trial. In rejecting our request to attend the meeting, the narrow ‘Majorityism’ definition of democracy was espoused. On application, the application was rejected and a request for a review of an area review officer was forwarded to the office. The judge rejected the request for an adjournment and the renewed application insofar as it was made. They also wanted a change of venue but the judge rejected both requests. The judge rejects a media request to open more of jury selection to the public. It was announced minutes after an appeals court rejected his request for an execution delay. It also levied transaction charges, including an enhanced charge of £35 per item if it rejected any request for payment. The race commissioner, however, rejected their request, upholding Dumaresq's legal right to race. Fr Cashman, has rejected a request that he retires from the diocese and wants to remain on as a practising curate in the parish. He also invoked the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to reject the requests. I have not spoken with Tim since last Thursday before the court of appeals rejected our last request for a stay. In a real bombshell, Shirley rejects the romantic request, and this sets off a sad series of events. The government board hearing the requests has rejected its application twice before. Mr Chirac has flatly rejected requests to accept a summons for questioning by magistrates in the travel scandal. He rejected their request for limits of Chinese imports of welded steel pipes. The judge also rejected a media request to televise the high profile trial. Synonyms turn down, refuse, decline, say no to dismiss, spurn informal give the thumbs down to, give the red light to, give something a miss British informal knock back rare negative 1.2 Fail to show due affection or concern for (someone); rebuff. 嫌弃，厌弃 she didn't want him to feel he had been rejected after his sister was born 她不想让他在妹妹出生后感觉自己被冷落。 Example sentencesExamples Sharon herself made the observation that she shouldn't be rejecting people because of their appearance given her hair in its current condition. In several studies, women emphasized wanting to satisfy a partner's needs, promote intimacy, avoid tension in a relationship, and avoid rejecting a partner. Well, you've been exploring the relationship between rejection and aggression in the lab, now first of all you actually have to somehow reject people in an experimental setting. God will never reject me but people may. She hated her sister's vanity and secretly hoped Lucas would reject her. Sometimes, says Mr. Vijayraj, young women are rejected because they are disabled. But she rejected him and married a decrepit alcoholic, years older than herself. She was rejected and abandoned by her own family, and she was desperate. They realised that being evil is no matter because people will always reject you. She rejects him after he cannot get into the army, but when she is kidnapped along with his train, he single-handedly attempts to get the train back. ‘I say to you, you cannot bring your same-sex partner to the prom, we are not rejecting you as a person,’ Martin said. You're probably thinking, if I don't want people to like me I shouldn't wear stuff like this, but let's just say I like rejecting people. Michael had the tainted innocence of an outcast, but I knew he was better than the very people who would reject him. The people will worship him; they will also reject him. Would people reject me just because I'm too pale, my nose is too long, and my hair too light? In doing so we cut ourselves off from every aspect of our life - from other people who will reject us, from our wicked past, our hopeless future and from nature itself. Her parents had been brought in from outside and after Saraswati was born her mother rejected her. Her rejecting him only made his desire to gain her affection that much stronger. He returns to his daughter much later in her life, and she initially rejects him. This might eventually cause others to reject the depressed person and to avoid future interactions. Synonyms rebuff, spurn, repudiate, cut off, cast off, cast aside, discard, jettison, abandon, desert, turn one's back on, have nothing (more) to do with, wash one's hands of, cast out, shut out, exclude, shun, cold-shoulder, give someone the cold shoulder ostracize, blackball, blacklist, avoid, give a wide berth to, ignore, snub, cut dead, keep at arm's length, leave out in the cold British send to Coventry North American disfellowship informal give someone the brush-off, kick someone in the teeth, freeze out, hand someone the frozen mitt informal, dated give someone the go-by British informal give someone the push, give someone the elbow, give someone the big E, bin off, blank North American informal give someone the air dated cut Christianity excommunicate archaic forsake 1.3Medicine Show an immune response to (a transplanted organ or tissue) so that it fails to survive. 〔医〕排斥（移植器官或组织） his body could begin to reject the implanted heart Example sentencesExamples A mix of immunosuppressive therapies is typically used to prevent a recipient's body from rejecting a transplanted organ. Immunosuppressants interfere with the body's immune system - making it less capable of rejecting the transplanted kidney. You'll need to follow a lifelong regimen of drug therapy after an organ transplant to prevent your body from rejecting the new organ. The results also show that female heart transplant patients were more likely than men to reject the organ. In many instances, bodies reject transplant organs because their immune systems see them as foreign tissue. noun ˈriːdʒɛktˈriˌdʒɛkt 1A person or thing dismissed as inadequate or unacceptable. （因不合格而）被拒绝的人；（因不合格或不受欢迎而）被拒的货品 some of the team's rejects have gone on to prove themselves in championships 该队一些被弃队员已在冠军赛中显示自己的能力。 Example sentencesExamples If you imagine a society founded on the rejects of monarchical and hierarchical Europe, then what might you imagine to be the result? Rejected specialists are sent back with notes stating the reasons and recommending to those in charge of training units what they should stress in retraining the rejects. Like the spurned women of Manhattan, Howard and his fellow rejects should remind themselves they're smart, beautiful, funny, wonderful people who deserve better. The odd people he collects for the swim team are the rejects of regular sports and life; everyone's position as an outcast helps bond him to his teammates. Do you think more than a few of those rejects might have cost us some serious money had we hired them? What is new in today's world is how many girls feel they have to maintain a big-bucks image - or risk feeling like a total reject. Jesus always had a soft spot for the ‘outsiders’, the rejects, those considered not good enough, who had not made the grade, those the pious did not want to be seen with. As much as some might believe weblogs are the exclusive property of New York media rejects, the best use of the medium is by baseball fans, many of whom are professional writers by day and baseball nerds by night. No, we are the rejects, not part of any clique at all. Though nine out of ten are rejects, that didn't soften the sting of the final e-mail. I looked at each of them in turn, retaining the scowl on my face until all the rejects were gone and the guards had returned. They were just doing it to become social rejects. She banished me from her caravan but not before I had stolen her magic crystal ball and called her a reject. You've got to wonder if, over at ABC, they're fully appreciating the demographic significance of the first few rejects: old folks. And what makes you think I'm not going to be one of the rejects? The pain of not going back to school junior year just because I was afraid I wouldn't blend in because mother said I was a reject. The ones elected to these jobs, so far outside the safe walls of the home base, were usually the girls who had outlived their usefulness at home or the social rejects from the hierarchy. Never leave a popular classmate stranded with a social reject for group projects. Hardly any of them was a political reject, who had to be accommodated in a gilded cage like the Raj Bhawan. So sure, I feel better than these rejects who try and rate the NFL games, but then again, if I'm just a critic, sitting here giving my opinion again, how can you really think I'm right? Synonyms failure, loser, incompetent (rejects), flotsam 1.1 An item sold cheaply because of minor flaws. 次品，等外品 as modifier reject china plates Example sentencesExamples We were forced to woo younger guys or scavenge in the reject bin of the older group. She's a short, rather chubby woman who always dressed the same, in those long dresses and skirts that looked like she plucked them out of a reject bin. Chelsea barely glanced at the next shirt before deciding that it wasn't right and tossing it in the reject pile. So, when more than one chemist went over the same list of 2000 compounds, how similar were their reject lists? We sat back on the bright orange reject couch and admired our handiwork. There is flood of company rejects too in the market which are available at unbelievable prices. To the consumer this means the product is a reject in Brazil and is not fit for human consumption. This plutonium is a reject load being returned to British Nuclear Fuels by Japan. After emptying your dresser drawers, haul your rejects off for charity. Other buzzing entrepreneurs would zoom up and buy your rejects to peddle at flea markets. This is the land of export rejects and clothes come in lots from manufacturing units. The first condoms sold to the South African government in the early 1990s for free distribution were rejects from the European market and regularly split. Synonyms substandard article, discard, second (rejects), substandard goods Derivatives rejectable adjective rɪˈdʒɛktəb(ə)l If Ashley had been low and pathetic enough, she might almost have felt pity for her and her rejectable friends. Example sentencesExamples Acceptance of a product will not limit a buyer's right to make a rejection relating to a rejectable product. We rejected the rejectable and admitted only those items that are in step with the principles we promote each month. It is not at all difficult to reject many of the criticisms of globalisation that have recently been made, and it is right that rejectable points should be repulsed. rejective adjective rɪˈdʒɛktɪv rare Dismissive of a proposal or idea. rejective rage and hatred Example sentencesExamples Appropriate type I error rates were determined by the sequentially rejective Bonferroni test. Three different modes of Si uptake have been proposed for plants having different degrees of Si accumulation, that is, active, passive, and rejective uptake. It's not good enough to perform a rejective revolution - ‘we want them out’ - because that's just a coup d'état, and little changes. rejector noun Possible outcomes are given for a host adopting either the acceptor or rejector strategy when the parasite is a nonevictor. Example sentencesExamples If one endorses the alliance but the other rejects it, the rejector gains the advantage by sacrificing the other on the ‘altar of expediency’. I find another magazine to send the idea to and put the rejector on my list for coming up with new ideas. Few are conscious and arrogant rejectors of God; instead they tend to be agnostics who feel not a little guilt at using nearby churches for baptisms, weddings and funerals but nought else. The crashing realisation of abandonment, unsatisfied dependency needs - be it material, emotional or spiritual - anger at the rejector, and desire to inflict damage commensurate with the suffering, creates the desire for revenge. Origin Late Middle English: from Latin reject- 'thrown back', from the verb reicere, from re- 'back' + jacere 'to throw'. Rhymes affect, bisect, bull-necked, collect, confect, connect, correct, defect, deflect, deject, detect, direct, effect, eject, elect, erect, expect, infect, inflect, inject, inspect, interconnect, interject, intersect, misdirect, neglect, object, perfect, project, prospect, protect, reflect, respect, resurrect, sect, select, subject, suspect, transect, unchecked, Utrecht Definition of reject in US English: reject verbrəˈjektrəˈdʒɛkt [with object] 1Dismiss as inadequate, inappropriate, or not to one's taste. 拒绝，抵制 union negotiators rejected a 1.5 percent pay increase 工会的谈判代表们拒绝接受1.5%的工资增长幅度。 Example sentencesExamples Judge Maddocks rejected that contention and dismissed the appellant's appeal. This was overwhelming rejected by union members who stated they were holding out for a four per cent increase. In total, slightly more than 75 percent of union members voted to reject the contract. Not only was there therefore no unfair dismissal but, since there was no dismissal, the claim for wrongful dismissal was also rejected. 54.87 per cent of French voters reject the European Union's new constitution. The tribunal rejected the unfair dismissal claim, saying the email comment was not fitting to someone in his position as a manager. However, pressure to provide a drug rehabilitation programme as an alternative to dismissal was rejected. An immediate, but quickly rejected option is to drop the selling price by 10 percent. He was part of a Saskatchewan delegation that visited several European capitals last October to get the European Union to reject the ban. Local unions rejected the proposal which could have undermined their position in the entire plant. Fourth, typing is more distancing than talking: it is easier to dismiss or reject a respondent textually than verbally. The wine must pass an analytical test and is blind tasted by a panel which may reject wines judged faulty or atypical, and often does. However, the union has rejected this because it believes it is worth nothing at present. Kelly, the US officials said, rejected the threat as unacceptable as a means to resolve the nuclear crisis. However, the unions rejected the claim that the proposed redundancy payment increases would lead to more job losses. His attitude varied from rejecting such attempts as inadequate to according them the status of ‘fictions’. The Palestinians have rejected the release as inadequate and want thousands freed. The judge had found that all reasonable doctors would have avoided the danger and that any other approach was unacceptable, rejecting the contrary opinion of some of the experts. Well there was a claim similar to that made in Israel that was rejected and dismissed by a court about six months ago. Should the union accept or reject the Communist party's leading role in government? Synonyms banish, put away, set aside, lay aside, abandon, have done with, drop, disregard, brush off, shrug off, forget, think no more of, pay no heed to, put out of one's mind 1.1 Refuse to agree to (a request) 拒绝接受（请求），不同意 an application to hold a pop concert at the club was rejected 在俱乐部举办流行音乐会的申请被拒绝了。 Example sentencesExamples Earlier on Monday, Millette rejected a defence request for a new trial. It also levied transaction charges, including an enhanced charge of £35 per item if it rejected any request for payment. They also wanted a change of venue but the judge rejected both requests. The government board hearing the requests has rejected its application twice before. He also invoked the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to reject the requests. The judge rejects a media request to open more of jury selection to the public. In a real bombshell, Shirley rejects the romantic request, and this sets off a sad series of events. The race commissioner, however, rejected their request, upholding Dumaresq's legal right to race. I have not spoken with Tim since last Thursday before the court of appeals rejected our last request for a stay. She refuses to yield to the advances of her husband's friend Luka and rejects his request to marry him. Fr Cashman, has rejected a request that he retires from the diocese and wants to remain on as a practising curate in the parish. Unfortunately the Irish Medical Organisation has rejected this request in writing. The judge also rejected a media request to televise the high profile trial. Mr Chirac has flatly rejected requests to accept a summons for questioning by magistrates in the travel scandal. In rejecting our request to attend the meeting, the narrow ‘Majorityism’ definition of democracy was espoused. On application, the application was rejected and a request for a review of an area review officer was forwarded to the office. It was announced minutes after an appeals court rejected his request for an execution delay. I never even thought about asking why or rejecting her request. The judge rejected the request for an adjournment and the renewed application insofar as it was made. He rejected their request for limits of Chinese imports of welded steel pipes. Synonyms turn down, refuse, decline, say no to 1.2 Fail to show due affection or concern for (someone); rebuff. 嫌弃，厌弃 she didn't want him to feel he had been rejected after his sister was born 她不想让他在妹妹出生后感觉自己被冷落。 Example sentencesExamples Well, you've been exploring the relationship between rejection and aggression in the lab, now first of all you actually have to somehow reject people in an experimental setting. Her rejecting him only made his desire to gain her affection that much stronger. They realised that being evil is no matter because people will always reject you. The people will worship him; they will also reject him. Would people reject me just because I'm too pale, my nose is too long, and my hair too light? She rejects him after he cannot get into the army, but when she is kidnapped along with his train, he single-handedly attempts to get the train back. But she rejected him and married a decrepit alcoholic, years older than herself. Michael had the tainted innocence of an outcast, but I knew he was better than the very people who would reject him. Sharon herself made the observation that she shouldn't be rejecting people because of their appearance given her hair in its current condition. God will never reject me but people may. This might eventually cause others to reject the depressed person and to avoid future interactions. ‘I say to you, you cannot bring your same-sex partner to the prom, we are not rejecting you as a person,’ Martin said. Sometimes, says Mr. Vijayraj, young women are rejected because they are disabled. You're probably thinking, if I don't want people to like me I shouldn't wear stuff like this, but let's just say I like rejecting people. In doing so we cut ourselves off from every aspect of our life - from other people who will reject us, from our wicked past, our hopeless future and from nature itself. He returns to his daughter much later in her life, and she initially rejects him. In several studies, women emphasized wanting to satisfy a partner's needs, promote intimacy, avoid tension in a relationship, and avoid rejecting a partner. She hated her sister's vanity and secretly hoped Lucas would reject her. Her parents had been brought in from outside and after Saraswati was born her mother rejected her. She was rejected and abandoned by her own family, and she was desperate. Synonyms rebuff, spurn, repudiate, cut off, cast off, cast aside, discard, jettison, abandon, desert, turn one's back on, have nothing to do with, have nothing more to do with, wash one's hands of, cast out, shut out, exclude, shun, cold-shoulder, give someone the cold shoulder 1.3Medicine Show an immune response to (a transplanted organ or tissue) so that it fails to survive. 〔医〕排斥（移植器官或组织） Example sentencesExamples In many instances, bodies reject transplant organs because their immune systems see them as foreign tissue. A mix of immunosuppressive therapies is typically used to prevent a recipient's body from rejecting a transplanted organ. The results also show that female heart transplant patients were more likely than men to reject the organ. You'll need to follow a lifelong regimen of drug therapy after an organ transplant to prevent your body from rejecting the new organ. Immunosuppressants interfere with the body's immune system - making it less capable of rejecting the transplanted kidney. nounˈriˌdʒɛktˈrēˌjekt A person or thing dismissed as failing to meet standards or satisfy tastes. （因不合格而）被拒绝的人；（因不合格或不受欢迎而）被拒的货品 some of the team's rejects have gone on to prove themselves in championships 该队一些被弃队员已在冠军赛中显示自己的能力。 Example sentencesExamples And what makes you think I'm not going to be one of the rejects? She banished me from her caravan but not before I had stolen her magic crystal ball and called her a reject. They were just doing it to become social rejects. If you imagine a society founded on the rejects of monarchical and hierarchical Europe, then what might you imagine to be the result? What is new in today's world is how many girls feel they have to maintain a big-bucks image - or risk feeling like a total reject. Hardly any of them was a political reject, who had to be accommodated in a gilded cage like the Raj Bhawan. So sure, I feel better than these rejects who try and rate the NFL games, but then again, if I'm just a critic, sitting here giving my opinion again, how can you really think I'm right? Never leave a popular classmate stranded with a social reject for group projects. Do you think more than a few of those rejects might have cost us some serious money had we hired them? Jesus always had a soft spot for the ‘outsiders’, the rejects, those considered not good enough, who had not made the grade, those the pious did not want to be seen with. As much as some might believe weblogs are the exclusive property of New York media rejects, the best use of the medium is by baseball fans, many of whom are professional writers by day and baseball nerds by night. I looked at each of them in turn, retaining the scowl on my face until all the rejects were gone and the guards had returned. The pain of not going back to school junior year just because I was afraid I wouldn't blend in because mother said I was a reject. Though nine out of ten are rejects, that didn't soften the sting of the final e-mail. You've got to wonder if, over at ABC, they're fully appreciating the demographic significance of the first few rejects: old folks. Rejected specialists are sent back with notes stating the reasons and recommending to those in charge of training units what they should stress in retraining the rejects. Like the spurned women of Manhattan, Howard and his fellow rejects should remind themselves they're smart, beautiful, funny, wonderful people who deserve better. No, we are the rejects, not part of any clique at all. The ones elected to these jobs, so far outside the safe walls of the home base, were usually the girls who had outlived their usefulness at home or the social rejects from the hierarchy. The odd people he collects for the swim team are the rejects of regular sports and life; everyone's position as an outcast helps bond him to his teammates. Synonyms failure, loser, incompetent Origin Late Middle English: from Latin reject- ‘thrown back’, from the verb reicere, from re- ‘back’ + jacere ‘to throw’.
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