0 present 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.
The authors are not alone in rejecting the notion that there are internal pictorial representations.
Rejecting an evolutionary perspective, though, is perfectly compatible with being a staunch proponent of innateness and internal representation models of cognition.
In reasonings involving speculation, or considering and rejecting various possibilities, a variety of mental spaces has to be set up.
