Usually means: Refuse to accept or consider.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word Reject:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. reject: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. reject: Merriam-Webster
  3. reject: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. reject: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. reject: Collins English Dictionary
  6. reject: Vocabulary.com
  7. Reject, reject: Wordnik
  8. reject: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. reject: Wiktionary
  10. reject: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. reject: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. reject: Dictionary.com
  13. reject: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. reject: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Reject (EP), Reject (album), Reject: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Reject: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. reject: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. reject: Rhymezone
  19. Reject: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. reject: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. reject: FreeDictionary.org
  22. reject: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. reject: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. reject: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. reject: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. reject: Legal dictionary
  5. reject: Financial dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. reject: CCI Computer
  2. reject: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. reject: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. reject: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. reject: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. reject: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Reject, The Reject: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dictionary for Avionics (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (reject)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To refuse to accept; to forswear.
▸ verb:  (basketball) To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To refuse a romantic advance.
▸ noun:  Something that is rejected.
▸ noun:  (derogatory, slang) An unpopular person.
▸ noun:  (colloquial) A rejected defective product in a production line.
▸ noun:  (aviation) A rejected takeoff.

Similar:
refuse, spurn, turn down, disapprove, eliminate, scorn, decline, disdain, rule out, turn away, more...

Opposite:
accept, approve, embrace, welcome, adopt

Types:
deny, refuse, rebuff, spurn, snub, more...

Phrases:
reject shop, The Reject Shop, reject contemptuously, to reject, reject authority, more...

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Similar:
refuse, spurn, turn down, disapprove, eliminate, scorn, decline, disdain, rule out, turn away, more...

Opposite:
accept, approve, embrace, welcome, adopt

Types:
deny, refuse, rebuff, spurn, snub, more...

Phrases:
reject shop, The Reject Shop, reject contemptuously, to reject, reject authority, quick to reject, opposite of reject, to reject a concern, social reject, to reject an ideology, a reject, reject his, more...

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    gray,     black,     brown,     dark red,     olive, more...



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