rejecteen.
/rᵻˈdʒɛkˌtiː/, /ˌriːdʒɛkˈtiː/, U.S. /rəˈdʒɛkˌti/, /riˈdʒɛkˌti/, /ˌridʒɛkˈti/ Originally U.S.
A person who is rejected, esp. one rejected as unfit for military service or not accepted for admission to a particular university or college.
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1876 D. D. Whedon Pop. Comm. New Test. IV. 69/1 A castaway, a rejectee, or reprobate, who could not stand the double scrutiny.
1902 St. Louis Courier Med. Aug. 104 Lawyers by the score have been sent up to persuade or bully the Board, according to the temper or whim of the rejectees.
1930 Los Angeles Times 12 Mar. 1/5 Support asked for Secretary of Labor Davis as Pennsylvania ‘rejectee’ goes to Florida.
1941 Sun (Baltimore) 18 June 3/1 Twenty-six youths rejected by selective service officials..began taking physical examinations..for admittance to the first camp in the United States to be established for ‘rejectees’.
1960 C. Bukowski Let. 22 Aug. in Screams from Balcony (1998) 23 The mailman with his smirking white rejectee envelopes.
1977 Time 20 June 48/2 Determined to become a doctor, Braun did what an increasing number of rejectees do each year: he looked abroad.
2004 G. Nunberg Going Nucular 10 Wouldn't the parents of a 92nd Street Y [sc. a highly selective school] rejectee be happier if the Y just came out and said that the fix was in?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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