complete rejection

collocation in English

meaningsofcompleteandrejection

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complete
adjective
uk
/kəmˈpliːt/us
/kəmˈpliːt/
very great or to the largest ...
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rejection
noun
uk
/rɪˈdʒek.ʃən/us
/rɪˈdʒek.ʃən/
the act of refusing to accept, use, or believe someone ...
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(Definition ofcompleteandrejectionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcomplete rejection

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He avoids the term 'assimilation', preferring 'acculturation' because it does not entail acompleterejectionof the culture of origin.
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Average scores for the syntactic and lexical variants could range from 1.00 (full acceptance) to 3.00 (completerejection).
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Although incidence is low, it is in contrast withcompleterejectionby older females.
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First, we see acompleterejectionof a utilitarian justification of punishment.
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What he aims at is acompleterejectionof difference and the achievement of unity at the political, ideological, and national levels.
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Pushed to its limits, progress may justify thecompleterejectionof traditional music and traditional instruments.
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Explicit doubts may intensify the intrinsic doubts of our acceptance to the point of converting it into acompleterejection.
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On the one hand, we accept a natural law based partly on theology and, on the other, there is acompleterejection.
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It seems to me the apotheosis of co-operation and thecompleterejectionof competition.
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I was asked to intervene in support of one particular proposal by the union, which would have amounted to acompleterejectionof the award.
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To make a long story short, the result of the first meeting was acompleterejectionof all the points submitted.
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First, there wascompleterejection, and this was changed later.
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There was onlycompleterejectionof the whole philosophy of a prices and incomes policy.
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There iscompleterejection, out of hand, without any drawback or modification or qualification.
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That finding is deeply offensive to responsible parents, incorporating as it mustcompleterejection of the idea of an isolated, one-off home accident.
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Surely that must mean acompleterejectionof federalism, because the majority report certainly rejected federalism.
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Surely the right attitude to adopt towards them is neither unqualified acceptance on the one hand—which some people have shown—norcompleterejection, on the other.
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But paradoxically underpinning all was acompleterejectionof the principle of loans.
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There has been, as late as last night, acompleterejectionof our new clause 11, which would have restored some element of democracy to local government reform.
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