reject
noun/ˈriːdʒekt/
/ˈriːdʒekt/
- something that cannot be used or sold because there is something wrong with it
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- a person who has not been accepted as a member of a team, society, etc.
- one of society’s rejects
something that cannot be used
person
Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin reject- ‘thrown back’, from the verb reicere, from re- ‘back’ + jacere ‘to throw’.
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