Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Refusal to accept.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A neglect or refusal to accept.

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  • noun A neglect or refusal to accept.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the act of refusing an offer

Etymologies

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non- +‎ acceptance

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Examples

  • I wholly empathize with the need to accept those trips: not everyone is fortunate enough to serve publications that pay for their trips and that also make nonacceptance of them easy by forbidding them entirely.

    Advertorial, Leslie Sbrocco, 7-11, chocolate milk, freer trade - sipped and spit | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009

  • Ted ... you've greatly overestimated your appeal as well as having greatly overstated your nonacceptance of an imaginary offer!

    Top Obama VP candidate takes himself out of the running 2008

  • The government realizes there is a problem with nonintegration and nonacceptance of Canadian values and heritage, but they are wondering whether there is anything they can do about it.

    2008 September 01 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008

  • The process for rejecting of claims on third-party institutions took several steps; these notes had been stopped at the first stage—protested for nonacceptance—but had not yet been returned under protest for nonpayment, in which case Morris would have to pay damages to his creditors and fund the bills anew.

    Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

  • The process for rejecting of claims on third-party institutions took several steps; these notes had been stopped at the first stage—protested for nonacceptance—but had not yet been returned under protest for nonpayment, in which case Morris would have to pay damages to his creditors and fund the bills anew.

    Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

  • The risk of nonacceptance of training materials is also very low since the advisors are developing this material in the first place.

    The Power of Co-Creation Venkat Ramaswamy 2010

  • The risk of nonacceptance of training materials is also very low since the advisors are developing this material in the first place.

    The Power of Co-Creation Venkat Ramaswamy 2010

  • The government realizes there is a problem with nonintegration and nonacceptance of Canadian values and heritage, but they are wondering whether there is anything they can do about it.

    Multiculturalism To Get An Overhaul? Don’t Hold Your Breath « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008

  • The risk of nonacceptance of training materials is also very low since the advisors are developing this material in the first place.

    The Power of Co-Creation Venkat Ramaswamy 2010

  • People on the left were definitely saying that nonacceptance of Obama was racist.

    There's an awful lot of instinctive revulsion toward Bobby Jindal. Ann Althouse 2009

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