rejection slip
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
rejection slip (plural rejection slips)
- (publishing) 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.
- 1909, Jack London, chapter 11, in Martin Eden:
- The rejection slip was so tactfully worded that he felt kindly toward the editor.
- 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 editor . . . returned the manuscript with a rejection slip. Anthony sent it off elsewhere and began another story.
- 2002 April 14, Frank McCourt, “Reflections on Creative Writing Class”, in New York Times, retrieved 18 August 2015:
- 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.
Usage notes[edit]
- Use of this term has decreased with the increase in electronic communication.
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Further reading[edit]
- “rejection slip”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.