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{
"term": "reject",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"academic": true,
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b1",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "reject",
"heSheIt": "rejects"
},
"pastSimple": "rejected",
"pastParticiple": "rejected",
"ingForm": "rejecting"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to refuse to accept or consider something",
"sensetop": "reject something",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "to **reject an argument/a hypothesis/a notion/a plan**"
},
{
"text": "to **reject a claim/an offer/a request/an application**"
},
{
"text": "The bank has the option of accepting or rejecting this offer."
},
{
"text": "The prime minister **rejected** any **idea** of reforming the system."
},
{
"text": "The **proposal** was firmly **rejected**."
},
{
"text": "School officials flatly rejected the proposal."
},
{
"text": "All our **suggestions were rejected** out of hand."
},
{
"text": "The Government **rejected calls** for an inquiry."
},
{
"text": "Don't just reject their suggestions out of hand."
},
{
"text": "He urged the committee to reject the plans."
},
{
"text": "It was a badly researched product that consumers rightly rejected."
},
{
"text": "She firmly rejected the suggestion that she had lied to Parliament."
},
{
"text": "The paper expressly rejected charges that it had invented the story."
},
{
"text": "The paper indignantly rejected charges that it had invented the story to boost sales."
},
{
"text": "The plan was rejected on economic grounds."
},
{
"text": "The proposal was rejected as too costly."
},
{
"text": "Their design was rejected in favour of one by a rival company."
},
{
"text": "Voters emphatically rejected the proposals."
},
{
"text": "Voters narrowly rejected the plan."
}
],
"topics": ["Business"],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["decisively", "emphatically", "firmly"],
"verb + reject": ["vote to", "be free to", "have the right to"],
"preposition": ["as", "in favour/favor of"],
"phrases": ["reject something on… grounds"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to refuse to accept somebody for a job, position, etc.",
"sensetop": "reject somebody",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "Please reject the following candidates…"
},
{
"text": "I've been rejected by all the universities I applied to."
},
{
"text": "Some applicants were rejected outright."
},
{
"text": "We considered offering him the job, but finally rejected him."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["decisively", "emphatically", "firmly"],
"verb + reject": ["vote to", "be free to", "have the right to"],
"preposition": ["as", "in favour/favor of"],
"phrases": ["reject something on… grounds"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "to decide not to use, sell, publish, etc. something because its quality is not good enough",
"sensetop": "reject something",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "Imperfect articles are rejected by our quality control."
},
{
"text": "The book was at first rejected by publishers."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["decisively", "emphatically", "firmly"],
"verb + reject": ["vote to", "be free to", "have the right to"],
"preposition": ["as", "in favour/favor of"],
"phrases": ["reject something on… grounds"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "to not accept a new organ after a transplant operation, by producing substances that attack the organ",
"sensetop": "reject something",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "Her body has already rejected two kidneys."
},
{
"text": "No one knows why a foetus is not automatically rejected by the mother's immune system."
},
{
"text": "The organs are automatically rejected by the immune system."
}
],
"topics": ["Health problems", "Healthcare"],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["decisively", "emphatically", "firmly"],
"verb + reject": ["vote to", "be free to", "have the right to"],
"preposition": ["as", "in favour/favor of"],
"phrases": ["reject something on… grounds"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 5,
"definition": "to fail to give a person or an animal enough love or care",
"sensetop": "reject somebody/something",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "The lioness rejected the smallest cub, which died."
},
{
"text": "When her husband left home she felt rejected and useless."
},
{
"text": "He was only three when his father left and I think he still feels rejected."
},
{
"text": "She was rejected by her family and moved to another town."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈdʒekt/",
"audio": "re/reject/reject__gb_3.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈdʒekts/",
"audio": "re/reject/rejects__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈdʒektɪd/",
"audio": "re/reject/rejected__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈdʒektɪŋ/",
"audio": "re/reject/rejecting__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈdʒekt/",
"audio": "re/reject/reject__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈdʒekts/",
"audio": "re/reject/rejects__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈdʒektɪd/",
"audio": "re/reject/rejected__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈdʒektɪŋ/",
"audio": "re/reject/rejecting__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Latin reject- ‘thrown back’, from the verb reicere, from re- ‘back’ + jacere ‘to throw’."
}