Phrasal verb: turn down

[Heba]

Test No. incompl/inter-32 "Story (1)", question 5

The one hotel that hadn't turned ......... my application was situated right in the middle of a forest.

(a) out
(b) down
(c) into
(d) aside from

Test No. incompl/inter-32 "Story (1)", answer 5

The one hotel that hadn't turned down my application was situated right in the middle of a forest.

Correct answer: (b) down
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i can't guess the meaning to choose the write answer what can i do?

[Alan]

Hi Heba,

You're quite right when you say you can't guess and I would suggest you get a good dictionary like: THE ADVANCED LEARNER'S DICTIONARY PUBLISHED BY OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS and then you can look up for example turn and you will see how this verb + certain prepositions can take on different meanings like the one in the sentence turn down meaning reject/refuse. These constructions are called phrasal verbs (turn off/over/in/down). If you like, you can go to the heading on this site called ESL LESSONS and you can see other examples of phrasal verbs in stories that I've written to show how they are used.

Alan
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[Mfiliov]

What is the meaninig of 'turn down' in that sentence?

[Alan]

Hi,

As I said above' 'turn down' means refuse or say 'no' to as in: I said I didn't want to do the job and turned it down.

Alan
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English as a Foreign Language
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[Mfiliov]

Thanks a lot for your answer, it's my mistake that I didn't see it in your previous answer.