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Meaning of 'accept' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Accept [ a.]
- Accepted.
2 . Accept [ v. t.]
- To receive with a consenting mind (something offered); as, to accept a gift; -- often followed by of.
- To receive with favor; to approve.
- To receive or admit and agree to; to assent to; as, I accept your proposal, amendment, or excuse.
- To take by the mind; to understand; as, How are these words to be accepted?
- To receive as obligatory and promise to pay; as, to accept a bill of exchange.
- In a deliberate body, to receive in acquittance of a duty imposed; as, to accept the report of a committee. [This makes it the property of the body, and the question is then on its adoption.]

Meaning of 'accept' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . accept [ v]
Meaning (1):
- consider or hold as true
Example in sentence:
  • accept an argument;
  • I cannot accept the dogma of this church
Meaning (2):
- admit into a group or community
Example in sentence:
  • accept students for graduate study;
  • We'll have to vote on whether or not to admit a new member
Meaning (3):
- give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to
Example in sentence:
  • I cannot accept your invitation;
  • I go for this resolution
Meaning (4):
- tolerate or accommodate oneself to
Example in sentence:
  • I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions;
  • I swallowed the insult;
  • She has learned to live with her husband's little idiosyncrasies
Meaning (5):
- receive willingly something given or offered
Example in sentence:
  • I won't have this dog in my house!;
  • Please accept my present;
  • The only girl who would have him was the miller's daughter
Meaning (6):
- take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person
Example in sentence:
  • I'll accept the charges;
  • She agreed to bear the responsibility
Meaning (7):
- react favorably to; consider right and proper
Example in sentence:
  • People did not accept atonal music at that time;
  • We accept the idea of universal health care
Meaning (8):
- make use of or accept for some purpose
Example in sentence:
  • take a risk;
  • take an opportunity
Meaning (9):
- be sexually responsive to, used of a female domesticated mammal
Example in sentence:
  • The cow accepted the bull
Meaning (10):
- be designed to hold or take
Example in sentence:
  • This surface will not take the dye

Nearby Words:

accadian accede acceded accedence acceder acceding accelerando accelerate accelerated accelerating

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