Definitions for accept

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accept ac·cept

Spelling: [ak-sept]

IPA: /ækˈsɛpt/

Accept is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 87 anagrams from letters in accept (accept).

Definitions for accept

verb (used with object)

1. to take or receive (something offered); receive with approval or favor:
2. to agree or consent to; accede to:
3. to respond or answer affirmatively to:
4. to undertake the responsibility, duties, honors, etc., of:
5. to receive or admit formally, as to a college or club.
6. to accommodate or reconcile oneself to:
7. to regard as true or sound; believe:
8. to regard as normal, suitable, or usual.
9. to receive as to meaning; understand.
10. Commerce. 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:
12. to receive or contain (something attached, inserted, etc.):
13. to receive (a transplanted organ or tissue) without adverse reaction. Compare reject (def 7).

verb (used without object)

1. to accept an invitation, gift, position, etc. (sometimes followed by of).

Origin of accept

1350-1400; Middle English accepten Middle French accepter Latin acceptare, equivalent to ac- ac- + -cep- take, combining form of cap- + -t- frequentative suffix

Examples for accept

accept them for a dowry; and allow me to claim one privilege in return.

It had been folly enough while he believed that she stood ready to accept him and his wealth.

To accept their nomination and stand as a Rural District Councillor!

Many Muslims may disagree with my view, or interpret Islam in a more moderate way, but I cannot accept this religion myself.

In the meantime, he should just accept that the holdup has nothing to do with his politics.

The responsibilities of the position I feel, but accept them without fear.

Thank you, Robert; I will accept your gift with thanks on one condition.

But they will have been through so much that, can they accept it?

“I need [my team] to triangulate as many sources as possible and we then accept the most credible,” Francesco Motta said.

Or as her mother tells her, sternly, “You got to accept that life is full of disappointments.”