Definitions for acceptance

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acceptance ac·cept·ance

Spelling: [ak-sep-tuh ns]

IPA: /ækˈsɛp təns/

Acceptance is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.

You can make 212 anagrams from letters in acceptance (aaccceenpt).

Definitions for acceptance

noun

1. the act of taking or receiving something offered.
2. favorable reception; approval; favor.
3. the act of assenting or believing:
4. the fact or state of being accepted or acceptable.
5. acceptation (def 1).
6. Commerce. an engagement to pay an order, draft, or bill of exchange when it becomes due, as by the person on whom it is drawn. an order, draft, etc., that a person or bank has accepted as calling for payment and has thus promised to pay.

Origin of acceptance

First recorded in 1565-75; accept + -ance

Examples for acceptance

An acceptance so direct left Clarence no alternative: his fate was decided.

For the first time since I put my acceptance letter in the mail, I woke up this morning ashamed of my alma mater.

Humility, like the artistic, acceptance of all experiences, is merely a mode of manifestation.

But her new theory of acceptance did not comprehend everything.

Removing distinctions like “plus-size” would get her and millions of other women closer to that level of acceptance.

I have, however, to do it, and now and then I have moments of submission and acceptance.

A better taxonomy would break us up by words like acceptance, Partial Denial, and Total Denial.

I was not insensible to the advantages of his proposal, and gladly assured him of my acceptance.

And the capital city is a veritable utopia of acceptance and integration.

In your acceptance speech at the National Book Awards, you said, “War is too strange to be processed alone.”