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accept
[ ak-sept, ik- ]
verb (used with object)
- to take or receive (something offered); receive with approval or favor:
to accept a present;
to accept a proposal.
Antonyms:
- to agree or consent to; accede to:
to accept a treaty;
to accept an apology.
Synonyms:
- to respond or answer affirmatively to:
to accept an invitation.
- to undertake the responsibility, duties, honors, etc., of:
to accept the office of president.
- to receive or admit formally, as to a college or club.
- to accommodate or reconcile oneself to:
to accept the situation.
- to regard as true or sound; believe:
to accept a claim;
to accept Catholicism.
Synonyms:
- to regard as normal, suitable, or usual.
- to receive as to meaning; understand.
- Commerce. to acknowledge, by signature, as calling for payment, and thus to agree to pay, as a draft.
- (in a deliberative body) to receive as an adequate performance of the duty with which an officer or a committee has been charged; receive for further action:
The report of the committee was accepted.
- to receive or contain (something attached, inserted, etc.):
This socket won't accept a three-pronged plug.
- to receive (a transplanted organ or tissue) without adverse reaction. Compare reject ( def 7 ).
verb (used without object)
- to accept an invitation, gift, position, etc. (sometimes followed by of ).
accept
/ 蓹办藞蝉蓻辫迟 /
verb
- to take or receive (something offered)
- to give an affirmative reply to
to accept an invitation
- to take on the responsibilities, duties, etc, of
he accepted office
- to tolerate or accommodate oneself to
- to consider as true or believe in (a philosophy, theory, etc)
I cannot accept your argument
- may take a clause as object to be willing to grant or believe
you must accept that he lied
- to receive with approval or admit, as into a community, group, etc
- commerce to agree to pay (a bill, draft, shipping document, etc), esp by signing
- to receive as adequate, satisfactory, or valid
- to receive, take, or hold (something applied, inserted, etc)
- archaic.intrsometimes foll byof to take or receive an offer, invitation, etc
Confusables Note
Derived Forms
- 补肠藞肠别辫迟别谤, noun
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 辫谤别路补肠路肠别辫迟 verb
- 谤别路补肠路肠别辫迟 verb (used with object)
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of accept1
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of accept1
Example Sentences
More than 20 forms of ID will be accepted, external, including:
Meanwhile, Sheinbaum has acknowledged that her nation is also accepting U.S. deportees who are not Mexicans 鈥 5,446 since Trump鈥檚 second term began.
Earlier this year, the chancellor defended accepting free tickets to a Sabrina Carpenter concert.
In Spain and Portugal, traffic lights stopped working, metro systems ground to a halt, and businesses were unable to accept card payments - triggering huge queues at the few cash machines that were still working.
In mitigation, Mr Clemo accepted victims had faced an extensive delay in getting justice, but that Burrows had come back of his own free will and didn't "have to come back in shackles".
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Accept Vs. Except
What鈥檚 the difference between accept and except?
Accept is a common word with many meanings, most of which involve receiving something, taking something on, or putting up with something. Except is most commonly used as a preposition meaning excluding or but, as in Everyone was invited except me, or as a conjunction meaning but for the fact that, as in I would have called, except I lost my phone.
Except can also be used as a verb meaning to exclude, as in the common phrase present company excepted, but its verb use is much less common. In contrast, accept is always a verb.
To remember the difference in the spelling between accept and except, remember that except shares the prefix ex- with exclude, which is fitting since except is commonly used in situations in which someone or something has been excluded.
Accept, on the other hand, is often used in situations in which something is acquired.
Here鈥檚 an example of accept and except used correctly in the same sentence.
Example: I usually accept your excuses, except this time I know they鈥檙e not true.
Want to learn more? Read the full breakdown of the difference between accept and except.
Quiz yourself on accept vs. except!
Should accept or except be used in the following sentence?
The cake was great _____ for the icing, which was a little too sweet.
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