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reject verb

• dismiss as inadequate, unacceptable, or faulty.
• "union negotiators rejected a 1.5 per cent pay award"

reject noun

• a person or thing dismissed as inadequate or unacceptable.
• "some of the team's rejects have gone on to prove themselves in championships"
Similar: failure, loser, incompetent, flotsam,
Origin: late Middle English: from Latin reject- ‘thrown back’, from the verb reicere, from re- ‘back’ + jacere ‘to throw’.


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