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Common collocations with rejection in American Collocation

rejection noun

US /rɪˈdʒekʃ(ə)n/

decisive
explicit
outright
overwhelming
utter
wholesale

Representatives voted for outright rejection of the management’s proposals.

advise people to reject something

recommend
urge

Many in the Church are urging the rejection of the arguments of the extremists.

when rejection is possible

fear
risk

Patients with this condition commonly fear social rejection.

experience rejection

cope with
deal with
endure
experience
suffer

Inevitably your paper maybe rejected – many are and all academics have suffered rejection at some time.