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accept
/əkˈsɛpt/
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What does accept mean?
verb
- To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.
- To admit to a place or a group.
- To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in.
More meanings (10)
verb
- To receive as adequate or satisfactory.
- To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.
- To endure patiently.
- To acknowledge patiently without opposition or resistance.
- To agree to pay.
- To receive officially.
- To receive something willingly.
- To do a service done by an establishment.
noun
- Something that is accepted.
adjective
- (obsolete) Accepted.
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IPA pronunciation
/əkˈsɛpt/
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This word crime overpassed the measure of what Marius, who was already greatly agitated by the abrupt evocation of Waterloo, could accept.
Maurice is allowed to accept the invitation, as he wishes to, but he is to avoid showing that gratitude which destroys independence.
More book examples (3)
Knightley could not impute to Emma a more relenting heart than she possessed, or a heart more disposed to accept of his.
To accept his injury and walk away without looking behind him was a stretch of good-nature of which he found himself incapable.
They won't understand that when you accept a position like this you can't casually toss it aside whenever you feel like it.