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Reject sentence after month (7)

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decline

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'reject' is the definition.
(I know that reject is a more specific form of decline)

'sentence after month' is the wordplay.
'sentence' becomes 'line' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'after' says to put letters next to each other.
'month' becomes 'dec' (abbreviation for December).
'line' after 'dec' is 'DECLINE'.

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(Other definitions for decline that I've seen before include "perform grammatical exercise" , "Say no or lose strength" , "Diminish; deteriorate" , "Downturn - turn down" , "Refuse - to take a drop" .)

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