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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (4)

1. the act of rejecting something;
- Example: "his proposals were met with rejection"

2. the state of being rejected;

3. (medicine) an immunological response that refuses to accept substances or organisms that are recognized as foreign;
- Example: "rejection of the transplanted liver"

4. the speech act of rejecting;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Rejection \Re*jec"tion\ (r?-j?k"sh?n), n. [L. rejectio: cf. F. r['e]jection.] Act of rejecting, or state of being rejected. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

rejection n 1: the act of rejecting something; "his proposals were met with rejection" 2: the state of being rejected [ant: acceptance] 3: (medicine) an immunological response that refuses to accept substances or organisms that are recognized as foreign; "rejection of the transplanted liver" 4: the speech act of rejecting