accept
/ækˈsɛpt/
verb
🇬🇧 UK
/ækˈsɛpt/
🇺🇸 US
/əkˈsɛpt/
Meaning
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Meaning 1 · verb
To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.
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Meaning 2 · verb
To admit to a place or a group.
“The Boy Scouts were going to accept him as a member.”
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Meaning 3 · verb
To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in.
“I accept the notion that Christ lived.”
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Meaning 4 · verb
To receive as adequate or satisfactory.
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Meaning 5 · verb
To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.
“I accept your proposal, amendment, or excuse.”
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Meaning 6 · verb
To endure patiently.
“I accept my punishment.”
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Meaning 7 · verb
To agree to pay.
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Meaning 8 · verb
To receive officially.
“to accept the report of a committee”
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Meaning 9 · verb
To receive something willingly.
“I accept.”
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Meaning 10 · adjective
Accepted.
How this word is used
- General “The Boy Scouts were going to accept him as a member.”
- General “I accept the notion that Christ lived.”
- General “I accept your proposal, amendment, or excuse.”
- General “I accept my punishment.”
- General “to accept the report of a committee”
- General “I accept.”
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