{
    "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’."
}