rejection
noun OPAL W
  /rɪˈdʒekʃn/
  /rɪˈdʒekʃn/
[uncountable, countable]- the act of refusing to accept or consider something- Her proposal met with unanimous rejection.
 
- the act of refusing to accept somebody for a job, position, etc.- a rejection letter (= a letter in which you are told, for example, that you have not been accepted for a job)
 
- the decision not to use, sell, publish, etc. something because its quality is not good enough- I've had letters of rejection from several publishers.
- Everyone from George Orwell to J. K. Rowling has had rejection slips (= formal notice from a publisher that a book, etc. is rejected).
 
- the failure of somebody's body to accept a new organ after a transplant operation- He had a second lung transplant after rejection of the first.
 
- failure to give a person or an animal enough love or care - painful feelings of rejection