Associations to the word «Rejection»

Wiktionary

REJECTION, noun. The act of rejecting.
REJECTION, noun. The state of being rejected.
REJECTION, noun. (sports) a blocked shot
REJECTION LETTERS, noun. Plural of rejection letter
REJECTION SLIP, noun. (publishing) A standardized message notifying an author that his or her work has not been accepted for publication, ordinarily printed on a small piece of paper and attached to the returned manuscript.

Dictionary definition

REJECTION, noun. The act of rejecting something; "his proposals were met with rejection".
REJECTION, noun. The state of being rejected.
REJECTION, noun. (medicine) an immunological response that refuses to accept substances or organisms that are recognized as foreign; "rejection of the transplanted liver".
REJECTION, noun. The speech act of rejecting.

Wise words

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
John Locke