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rejection slip en · NOUN

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1. A standardized message notifying an author that his or her work has not been accepted for publication, ordinarily printed on a small piece of paper and attached to the returned manuscript.
   • I told my writers . . . by the end of the term they'd have to bring in either a rejection slip or a check from a publisher. 2002 April 14, Frank McCourt, “Reflections on Creative Writing Class”, in New York Times, retrieved 18 Aug 2015:
   • The editor . . . returned the manuscript with a rejection slip. Anthony sent it off elsewhere and began another story. 1922, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, (please specify |book=1, 2, or 3):
   • The rejection slip was so tactfully worded that he felt kindly toward the editor. 1909, Jack London, chapter 11, in Martin Eden:

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