Usually means: Refuse to accept or consider.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word reject:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. reject: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. reject: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. reject: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. reject: Collins English Dictionary
  5. reject: Vocabulary.com
  6. Reject, reject: Wordnik
  7. reject: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. reject: Wiktionary
  9. reject: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. reject: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. reject: Dictionary.com
  12. reject: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. reject: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Reject (EP), Reject (album), Reject: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Reject: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. reject: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. reject: Rhymezone
  18. Reject: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. reject: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. reject: Free Dictionary
  21. reject: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. reject: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. reject: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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

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

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. 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)

(Note: See rejected as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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.

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