rejecter

rejecter
(ree.JEK.tur)
n.
A person who rejects or limits their interaction with technology.
Example Citation:
But in a scary finding for e-commerce boosters, a fast-growing number of occasional online users are "rejecters," abandoning the Internet in droves. Earlier this year, 29 million U.S. adults stopped using the Net. That's nearly double the number of those who had dropped out by 1998.
— Edward Iwata, "Tech's tyranny provokes revolt," USA Today, August 21, 2000
Earliest Citation:
In our EC-funded research into perceptions we have identified three different types of consumer.
The first, a small group, reject gene technology, and thereby genetically modified food, out of hand. Their main reasons are a moral and ethical aversion to the technology - an instinctive hostility because it is not perceived as natural. For some of these "rejecters" geneticists are "playing God".
— Sharon Kuznesos, "Food for genetic thought," The Journal (Newcastle, UK), June 9, 1998
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  • rejecter — Rejecter, Aspernari, Excludere, Reiicere. Rejecter et confuter ce qui est dit au contraire, Confutare, Refutare. Rejecter l opinion d aucun, Sententiam alicuius expellere. Rejecter quelque chose par desdaim ou contemnement, Fastidire, Nauseare,… …   Thresor de la langue françoyse

  • Rejecter — Re*ject er (r? j?kt ?r), n. One who rejects. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • rejecter — noun see reject I …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • rejecter — See reject. * * * …   Universalium

  • rejecter — noun One who rejects …   Wiktionary

  • rejecter — rɪ dÊ’ektÉ™(r) n. one who refuses, one who declines, one who rejects …   English contemporary dictionary

  • rejecter — re·ject·er …   English syllables

  • rejecter — rə̇ˈjektə(r), rēˈj noun ( s) : one that rejects …   Useful english dictionary

  • rejeter — [ r(ə)ʒəte; rəʒ(ə)te ] v. tr. <conjug. : 4> • v. 1200; lat. rejectare → jeter I ♦ Jeter en sens inverse (ce qu on a reçu, ce qu on a pris). 1 ♦ (En lançant). ⇒ relancer, renvoyer. Rejeter un poisson à l eau. ♢ (1538) Fig. Faire retomber sur …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • rejeter — (re je té. Le t se double quand la syllabe qui suit est muette : je rejette, je rejetterai) v. a. 1°   Jeter de nouveau. Rejetez moi ce livre que vous m avez déjà jeté.    Rejeter les yeux sur, porter de nouveau les regards sur. •   Bonsoir,… …   Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré

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