noun
- The act of rejecting something.
- usage: "his proposals were met with rejection"
- The state of being rejected.
- Medicine) an immunological response that refuses to accept substances or organisms that are recognized as foreign. (
- usage: "rejection of the transplanted liver"
- The speech act of rejecting. .
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