Accept (Verb)
Meaning 1
Receive (a report) officially, as from a committee.
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Verbs of buying, selling, owning.
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Meaning 2
Give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to; "I cannot accept your invitation"; "I go for this resolution".
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Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing.
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Meaning 3
Be designed to hold or take; "This surface will not take the dye".
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Verbs of being, having, spatial relations.
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Meaning 4
Admit into a group or community; "accept students for graduate study"; "We'll have to vote on whether or not to admit a new member".
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Verbs of buying, selling, owning.
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Meaning 5
Make use of or accept for some purpose; "take a risk"; "take an opportunity".
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Verbs of buying, selling, owning.
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Meaning 6
React favorably to; consider right and proper; "People did not accept atonal music at that time"; "We accept the idea of universal health care".
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Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting.
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Meaning 7
Be sexually responsive to, used of a female domesticated mammal; "The cow accepted the bull".
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Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting.
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Meaning 8
Take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person; "I'll accept the charges"; "She agreed to bear the responsibility".
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Verbs of buying, selling, owning.
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Meaning 9
Receive willingly something given or offered; "The only girl who would have him was the miller's daughter"; "I won't have this dog in my house!"; "Please accept my present".
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Verbs of buying, selling, owning.
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Meaning 10
Consider or hold as true; "I cannot accept the dogma of this church"; "accept an argument".
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Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting.
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Meaning 11
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 idiosyncrasies".
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Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting.