0 past simple and past participle of reject
1 to refuse to accept, use, or believe something or someone:
The prime minister rejected the suggestion that it was time for him to resign.
I applied for a job as a mechanic in a local garage, but I was rejected (= I was not offered the job).
The coach rejected him for the first team (= he was not offered a place).
When she was sent to boarding school, she felt as though her parents had rejected her.
The programme makers reject the notion that seeing violence on television has a harmful effect on children.
Modernism seeks to find new forms of expression and rejects traditional or accepted ideas.
It will not surprise anyone to learn that the offer has been rejected.
The steelworkers' leader rejected the 2% pay-rise saying it was an insult to the profession.
Banks rejected the model, but in fact the results of her main statistical tests (tables 2 and 3) provide support for it.
As the structural dimension of solidarity had not strengthened, it was not surprising that the third hypotheses also had to be rejected.
Nevertheless, if the father rejected elders' suggestions of marriage the court would convict the young man.
