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| —vb (sometimes foll by of) | |
| 1. | to take or receive (something offered) |
| 2. | to give an affirmative reply to: to accept an invitation |
| 3. | to take on the responsibilities, duties, etc, of: he accepted office |
| 4. | to tolerate or accommodate oneself to |
| 5. | to consider as true or believe in (a philosophy, theory, etc): I cannot accept your argument |
| 6. | (may take a clause as object) to be willing to grant or believe: you must accept that he lied |
| 7. | to receive with approval or admit, as into a community, group, etc |
| 8. | commerce to agree to pay (a bill, draft, shipping document, etc), esp by signing |
| 9. | to receive as adequate, satisfactory, or valid |
| 10. | to receive, take, or hold (something applied, inserted, etc) |
| 11. | archaic to take or receive an offer, invitation, etc |
| [C14: from Latin acceptāre, from ad- to + capere to take] | |
| ac'cepter | |
| —n | |
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Accepter
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| 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. |
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