"union negotiators rejected a 1.5 per cent pay award"

• refuse to agree to (a request)

  "an application to hold a pop concert at the club was rejected"

• fail to show due affection or concern for (someone); rebuff

  "she didn't want him to feel he had been rejected after his sister was born"

• show an immune response to (a transplanted organ or tissue) so that it fails to survive

  "his body could begin to reject the implanted heart"

"some of the team's rejects have gone on to prove themselves in championships"

• an item sold cheaply because of minor flaws

  "reject china plates"