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Accept - English Dictionary
 




1. To receive with a consenting mind (something offered); as, to accept a gift; -- often followed by of.
2. To receive with favor; to approve.
3. To receive or admit and agree to; to assent to; as, I accept your proposal, amendment, or excuse.
4. To take by the mind; to understand; as, How are these words to be accepted?
5. To receive as obligatory and promise to pay; as, to accept a bill of exchange.
6. In a deliberate body, to receive in acquittance of a duty imposed; as, to accept the report of a committee. [This makes it the property of the body, and the question is then on its adoption.]
7. Accepted.
8. accept Berkeley Unix networking socket library routine to satisfy a connection request from a remote host. A specified socket on the local host which must be capable of accepting the connection is connected to the requesting socket on the remote host. The remote socket's socket address is returned. Unix manual pages: accept2, connect2.
9. tolerate or accommodate oneself to; "I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions"; "I swallowed the insult"; "She has learned to live with her husband''s little idiosyncracies"

Related words

absorb accept acceptance acceptation acceptive acknowledge admit adopt adoption agree approbate be bear believe consent contract in credence digest espouse evaluate get give honor permit profess react receive refuse reject resign respect settle take a bow take in taker toleration undertake welcome word meaning yield



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