reject
Etymology
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Etymology
From Late Middle English rejecten, from Latin rēiectus, past participle of reicere, from re- ("back") + iacere.
Pronunciation Verbreject (rejects, present participle rejecting; simple past and past participle rejected)
- (transitive) To refuse to accept.
- She even rejected my improved offer.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The 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, after rejecting 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.
- (basketball) To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.
- (transitive) To refuse a romantic advance.
- I've been rejected three times this week.
- French: rejeter
- German: verwerfen, ablehnen, zurückweisen
- Italian: respingere, rifiutare
- Portuguese: rejeitar
- Russian: отверга́ть
- Spanish: rechazar, desestimar (formal), inadmitir (law)
- Spanish: chotear (Peru)
reject (plural rejects)
- Something that is rejected.
- (derogatory, slang) An unpopular person.
- (colloquial) A rejected defective product in a production 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 […] the reject china and designer-label bargains to be found in downtown discount emporia.
- (aviation) A rejected takeoff.
- (something that is rejected) castaway
- (an unpopular person) outcast, castaway, alien
- (rejected takeoff) RTO
- Spanish: artículo defectuoso
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