accept.
To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.
Meaning & usage
To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.
To admit to a place or a group.
The Boy Scouts were going to accept him as a member.
To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in.
I accept the notion that Christ lived.
I can't accept nothing being done about the problem and your standing idly by.
To receive as adequate or satisfactory.
To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.
I accept your proposal, amendment, or excuse.
To endure patiently.
I accept my punishment.
To acknowledge patiently without opposition or resistance.
We need to accept the fact that restaurants are closed due to COVID-19 and that no amount of wishing or screaming will make them reopen any sooner.
To agree to pay.
To receive officially.
to accept the report of a committee
To receive something willingly.
To do a service done by an establishment.
We accept repairs.
We accept bookbinding.
Where this word comes from
First attested about 1380. From Middle English accepten, borrowed from Old French accepter, or directly from Latin acceptō, acceptāre (“receive”), frequentative of accipiō, formed from ad- + capiō (“to take”). Displaced native Old English onfōn.
Accepted.
Where this word comes from
First attested about 1380. From Middle English accepten, borrowed from Old French accepter, or directly from Latin acceptō, acceptāre (“receive”), frequentative of accipiō, formed from ad- + capiō (“to take”). Displaced native Old English onfōn.
Something that is accepted.
Where this word comes from
First attested about 1380. From Middle English accepten, borrowed from Old French accepter, or directly from Latin acceptō, acceptāre (“receive”), frequentative of accipiō, formed from ad- + capiō (“to take”). Displaced native Old English onfōn.
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