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accepted

[ak-sep-tid]

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adjective

generally approved; usually regarded as normal, right, etc.: an accepted pronunciation of a word; an accepted theory.

Origin:
1485–95; accept + -ed²

Related forms

ac·cept·ed·ly, adverb

qua·si-ac·cept·ed, adjective

un·ac·cept·ed, adjective

well-ac·cept·ed, adjective

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Accepted is always a great word to know.

So is ort. Does it mean:

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.

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Example Sentences

Rangel accepted four rent-stabilized apartments from.

Accepted subject to minor revisions still means you have to make the revisions.

Imagine you could write cheques that were accepted as payment but never cashed.

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Rangel accepted four rent-stabilized apartments from.

Accepted subject to minor revisions still means you have to make the revisions.

Imagine you could write cheques that were accepted as payment but never cashed.

According to widely accepted theory, the universe was born in an instantaneous creation of matter and energy.

There's even a ridiculous accepted equation for dark energy using constants.

Cutting into someone's chest to perform heart surgery is not yet an accepted medical practice.

Even if it doesn't get accepted for the conference, it will keep me on track to get the study and manuscript done.

It can also enhance their chances of getting accepted for a popular course.

Only digital photographs related to our specified monthly theme will be accepted.

Conjunctions have been accepted as a proper way to begin a sentence for some time now.

It didn't change a whole lot from the manuscript that was accepted to what was published, mostly some subtle polishing.

We do not use any articles submitted to, accepted by, or published by another publication.

Comments are currently closed and new comments are no longer being accepted.

Modern society has both retained traditional rituals and accepted new ones.

After a crime is perpetrated, it is generally accepted that society must be protected from further acts.

Again it took no less than eight swipes for the print to be accepted.

Applications and recommendation letters are only accepted as an upload through our website.

But there is no widely accepted definition of depression.

Verbal reservations, orders or cancellations are not accepted.

His paper is of such quality that it is accepted and fast-tracked for publication.

Stone's work involves harvesting pig tissue and removing the antigens from that tissue so it can be accepted by a human body.

Some were accepted by online journals but others landed them in fairly respectable journals.

Applicants sit a merit-based test, and some debenture-holders are rejected and some non-holders accepted.

For something to be accepted as a symbol, it must translate the visions and goals of the people that surround.

Well, guess what, our society has accepted that externality in our transportation system.

Maybe it's because society hasn't wholeheartedly accepted the idea of working remotely.

Applications and nominations will be accepted until the position is filled.

However, it has notified students who accepted offers for next year's programme before the changes were mooted.

At first, the indigenous people burned the clothing and accepted the machetes.

Our society has not accepted being killed by vegetables.

If accepted by consumers, other breeds of edible fish are likely to follow.

Such unqualified applicants don't change the odds of qualified students being accepted.

Pennsylvania, looks forward to a future where robots are as much accepted into daily life as the family dog or a newborn child.

In fact, the thesis of the article rests on the foundation of the universally accepted and widely employed benefits.

It is widely accepted that the best way to stop a zombie is by destroying its brain with a bullet to the head.

The meeting is next month and the talk was accepted for oral.

But all of the violence on television-that's accepted.

Cosmic inflation is so widely accepted that it is often taken as established fact.

Most of us have accepted this bargain, but it turns out that taste profiling is only the beginning.

In other parts of the world, however, radon treatments have been around for much longer and are more widely accepted.

But their theories have never been accepted by the mainstream industry.

Nominations and applications will be accepted until the position is filled.

The surgery-which makes the recipient a human-animal chimera-is widely accepted.

The accepted hypothesis had been that random ants were fed certain foods that would allow them to develop into queens.

Application materials will not be accepted via fax, e-mail, mail or hand delivery.

Teach your children about plastic recycling codes and have them separate the plastics accepted by your local recycling program.

Vortex-based mathematics may be accepted by the weak to be a silly time machine.

Paper or emailed applications for this position will not be accepted.

But based on the accepted proton radius, the experiment failed to produce x-rays at the anticipated frequency.

Unless you want to debate the scientifically accepted method of carbon-dating, no more discussion is needed.

As the study of video games becomes accepted in academe, libraries have built collections and gaming labs.

Add all plastic containers with accepted recycling codes to your bin.

There can be no adaptation when the pain of adapting cannot be accepted.

No phone calls or email inquiries will be accepted for this position.

Regarding evolutionism, one of the few experts accepted by me wrote the following:.

Faxed, mailed, or emailed applications will not be accepted.

Viagra for men was accepted with different interest levels globally.

Roovers might have gotten away with the image enhancements if the paper had been accepted by a different journal.

Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.

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verb (used with object)

to take or receive (something offered); receive with approval or favor: to accept a present; to accept a proposal.

to agree or consent to; accede to: to accept a treaty; to accept an apology.

to respond or answer affirmatively to: to accept an invitation.

to undertake the responsibility, duties, honors, etc., of: to accept the office of president.

to receive or admit formally, as to a college or club.

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to accommodate or reconcile oneself to: to accept the situation.

to regard as true or sound; believe: to accept a claim; to accept Catholicism.

to regard as normal, suitable, or usual.

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: The report of the committee was accepted.

12.

to receive or contain (something attached, inserted, etc.): This socket won't accept a three-pronged plug.

13.

to receive (a transplanted organ or tissue) without adverse reaction. Compare reject (def. 7).

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verb (used without object)

14.

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

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

Related forms

pre·ac·cept, verb

re·ac·cept, verb (used with object)

Can be confused: accept, except (see synonym note at except¹).

Synonyms
2. concede. 7. acknowledge.

Antonyms
1. reject.

Usage note
Accept and except are sometimes confused as verbs because of their similar pronunciations, especially in rapid speech. Accept means “to take or receive” (I accept this trophy), while except means “to exclude” (Certain types of damage are excepted from coverage in this insurance policy).

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World English Dictionary

accepted (əkˈsɛptɪd)

—*adj*
	commonly approved or recognized; customary; established

ac'ceptedly

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

mid-14c., "to take what is offered," from O.Fr. accepter (14c.), from L. acceptare "take or receive willingly," freq. of acceptus, pp. of accipere "receive," from ad- "to" + capere "to take" (see capable).

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