Etymology
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From French réjection or directly from Latin reiectiōnem, accusative of Latin reiectiō. Displaced native Old English āworpennes (literally “thrown-out-ness”).
Pronunciation
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- IPA(key): /ɹɪˈd͡ʒɛk.ʃən/, /ɹəˈd͡ʒɛk.ʃən/
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- Rhymes: -ɛkʃən
rejection (countable and uncountable, plural rejections)
- The act of rejecting.
My offer was met with rejection
- The state of being rejected.
- (sports) A blocked shot.
- (medicine) An immune reaction of a host organism to a foreign biological tissue, such as in an organ transplant.
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Translations
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act of rejecting
- Armenian: մերժում (hy) (meržum)
- Bulgarian: отхвърляне (bg) n (othvǎrljane)
- Catalan: rebuig (ca) m, refús (ca) m
- Czech: odmítnutí (cs) n
- Dutch: afwijzing (nl)
- Esperanto: malakcepto (eo)
- Finnish: hylkääminen (fi), hylkäys (fi)
- French: refus (fr), rejet (fr)
- Galician: rexeitamento (gl) m
- German: Ablehnung (de) f
- Greek: απάρνηση (el) f (apárnisi)
- Hungarian: elutasítás (hu), visszautasítás (hu), elvetés (hu)
- Indonesian: penolakan (id)
- Irish: dearadh m
- Italian: rifiuto (it)
- Latin: reiectiō f, repulsa f
- Maori: akiritanga
- Old English: āworpennes f
- Polish: odmowa (pl) f, odrzucenie (pl) n
- Portuguese: rejeição (pt) f
- Russian: отка́з (ru) m (otkáz), отклоне́ние (ru) n (otklonénije), неприя́тие (ru) n (neprijátije), неприня́тие (ru) n (neprinjátije)
- Scottish Gaelic: diùltadh m
- Spanish: rechazo (es) m
- Telugu: తిరస్కారము (te) (tiraskāramu), తిరస్కృతి (te) (tiraskr̥ti)
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medicine: immune reaction to foreign tissue