accept
IPA: æksˈɛpt
verb
- (transitive) To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.
- (transitive) To admit to a place or a group.
- (transitive) To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in.
- (transitive) To receive as adequate or satisfactory.
- (transitive) To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.
- (transitive) To endure patiently.
- (transitive) To acknowledge patiently without opposition or resistance.
- (transitive, law, business) To agree to pay.
- (transitive) To receive officially.
- (intransitive) To receive something willingly.
adjective
- (Early Modern, obsolete) Accepted.
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Examples of "accept" in Sentences
- The man accepted the deal.
- The man accepted the decision.
- Infiltration is not acceptable.
- The congress accepted the demand.
- He was accepted to the university.
- The king accepted the requisition.
- I am glum because I didn't get accepted.
- The acceptance of the reform was limited.
- Accepting the ways of the West meant accepting democracy.
- But, he warned: The one approach I will not accept is inaction.
- If the final state in an accept state, then the automaton accepts the word.
- Their list of what judges do is something I wouldn't accept from a 6th grader.
- After Philadelphia, Eschenbach said he would never again accept a music directorship.
- What they don't "accept" is the idea, the concept, the notion, the thought of homosexuality.
- The argument the administrators are asking us to accept is that lawful carriers suddenly become dangerous simply by stepping from a public street onto campus property.
- What these boneheads don't realize or want to accept is the fact that most of the steps Obama has to take now is to remedy the putrid mismanagement of the last eight years.
- The reality that they are unwilling to accept is that if warming was in fact caused by humans, then no collective action on our part would be effective in halting it short of ceasing all electricity production and use of fossil fuels immediately.
- What most leftists just can't accept is that in order for everyone to be better off, some people have to accumulate more than others in order for the whole of society to achieve their goals of elimination of poverty (i.e., the lack of basic human needs to survive without considerable physical pain).