Collocations for "rejected"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "rejected" in context.
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reject
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.v
- reject [the offer, her request]
- rejected [other, many, better] [offers]
- reject his [advances, invitation, attempts]
- rejected them [outright, without pause for thought]
- reject your [friends, family]
- reject the [truth, reality, facts]
- reject the [notion, idea, proposal]
- reject the [job, position, promotion]
- rejected [my application, her request, the proposal]
- reject the [argument, claim] (that)
- reject a call
- the [government, Prime Minister] has rejected calls [to, for, from]
- [the patient, her body] rejected the [treatment, implant]
- rejected by [many, some, experts]
- was rejected by [her, the group, her peers]
- rejected from the group
- rejected on the grounds of
- rejected at first
- rejected for being [angry, poor, smelly]
- rejected as [useless, old, impractical]
- rejected and returned
- [factory, warehouse, customer, store] rejects
- [product, item, unit, batch, lot] rejects
- [an application, a job, a candidate] reject
- feel like such a reject
- sport: [an academy, a youth-team, a club] reject
- reject [plates, screens, items, washing machines]
'rejected' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
academic
- accept
- claim
- collateral
- counter
- country
- court
- delegate
- depressed
- despise
- evidence
- examination
- family
- flip
- idea
- ignore
- initially
- instance
- invention
- irrelevant
- ludicrous
- measure
- motion
- offer
- official
- part
- plea
- port
- promptly
- proof
- proposed
- publisher
- reject
- role
- scientist
- scrutiny
- settlement
- shattered
- society
- suggestions
- theory
- urban