• Arabic:
• Chinese: 拒绝 (jùjué)
• Czech: odmítnout, zamítnout
• Danish: afvise
• Dutch: verwerpen
• Finnish: hylätä
• French: rejeter
• German: verwerfen, ablehnen, zurückweisen
• Hungarian: visszautasítani, elvetni
• Italian: respingere, rifiutare
• Japanese: 拒絶する (きょぜつする, kyozetsu surú)
• Korean: 버리다 (beorida)
• Norwegian: avslå, avvise
• Polish: odrzucać
• Portuguese: rejeitar
• Russian: отвергать (otvergát’)
• Spanish: rechazar
• Swedish: avslå, avvisa
• Telugu: తిరస్కరించు (tiraskarimchu)
• Turkish: reddetmek

slang: an unpopular person

Related terms

• rejection

The word "rejection" was first used in 1415. The original meaning was "to throw" or "to throw back".

Rejection may mean:

• Social rejection, in psychology, an interpersonal situation that occurs when a person or group of people exclude an individual from a social relationship

• Transplant rejection, in medicine, the immune reaction of a host organism to a foreign biological tissue, such as in a transplantation

• In telecommunications, rejection is the receiving of the desired signal without interference from another undesired one. See Electronic selectivity

• In basketball, rejection is a slang term for a block

• Rejection sampling, in mathematics, a technique used to generate observations from a distribution

• In zoology, the shunning of one or more animals in a litter

Rejection may also refer to:

• A song by Martin Solveig
• Perfection, Nevada, a fictional town in the Tremors film and T.V. series, originally named Rejection

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