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{
"term": "rejection",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"academic": true,
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "the act of refusing to accept or consider something",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Her proposal met with unanimous rejection."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "the act of refusing to accept somebody for a job, position, etc.",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "a rejection letter *(= a letter in which you are told, for example, that you have not been accepted for a job)*"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "the decision not to use, sell, publish, etc. something because its quality is not good enough",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "I've had letters of rejection from several publishers."
},
{
"text": "Everyone from George Orwell to JK Rowling has had **rejection slips** *(= formal notice from a publisher that a book, etc. is rejected)*."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "the failure of somebody's body to accept a new organ after a transplant operation",
"cefr": "c2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "He had a second lung transplant after rejection of the first."
}
],
"topics": ["Health problems"]
},
{
"senseNumber": 5,
"definition": "failure to give a person or an animal enough love or care",
"examples": [
{
"text": "painful feelings of rejection"
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈdʒekʃn/",
"audio": "re/rejection/rejection__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈdʒekʃn/",
"audio": "re/rejection/rejection__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": null
}