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rejection slip (複数形 rejection slips)

1. (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, Martin Eden, ch. 11:

     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 916056193, (please specify |book=1, 2, または 3):

     The editor . . . returned the manuscript with a rejection slip. Anthony sent it off elsewhere and began another story.