Dictionary
ac•cept
Pronunciation: (ak-sept'), [key]—
v.t.
1. to take or receive (something offered); receive with approval or favor:
to accept a present; to accept a proposal.
2. to agree or consent to; accede to:
to accept a treaty; to accept an apology.
3. to respond or answer affirmatively to:
to accept an invitation.
4. to undertake the responsibility, duties, honors, etc., of:
to accept the office of president.
5. to receive or admit formally, as to a college or club.
6. to accommodate or reconcile oneself to:
to accept the situation.
7. to regard as true or sound; believe:
to accept a claim; to accept Catholicism.
8. to regard as normal, suitable, or usual.
9. to receive as to meaning; understand.
10. Com.to acknowledge, by signature, as calling for payment, and thus to agree to pay, as a draft.
11. (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.
12. to receive or contain (something attached, inserted, etc.):
This socket won't accept a three-pronged plug.
13. to receive (a transplanted organ or tissue) without adverse reaction. Cf.
reject (def. 7).
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v.i.
to accept an invitation, gift, position, etc. (sometimes fol. by
of).
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
