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acceptance
  1. The act of accepting; a receiving of something offered, with acquiescence, approbation, or satisfaction; especially, favourable reception; approval.
  2. Belief in something; agreement, assent.
  3. The state of being accepted.
  4. The usual or accepted meaning of a word or expression.
  5. (business, finance) An assent and engagement by the person on whom a bill of exchange is drawn, to pay it when due according to the terms of the acceptance; the bill of exchange itself when accepted.
  6. (law) An agreeing to the action, proposals, or terms of another by some act which results in the conclusion of a legally binding contract; the reception or taking of a thing bought as that for which it was bought, or as that agreed to be delivered, or the taking of possession of a thing as owner.
  7. (government, US) The act of an authorized representative of the government by which the government assents to ownership of existing and identified supplies, or approves specific services rendered, as partial or complete performance of a contract.
  8. (horse racing, Australia, New Zealand, plural only) A list of horses accepted as starters in a race.
  9. (optics) Synonym of etendue.
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  11. Examples:
    1. “He had made some foolish decisions because he was desperate for acceptance by his peers.”
      “Your acceptance of the rules of the house is required at all times.”
      “The acceptance of his theory was widespread despite many attempts to challenge its veracity.”
acceptor
  1. One who accepts.
  2. (law, commerce) One who accepts a draft or a bill of exchange; a drawee after he has accepted.
  3. (chemistry) An atom or molecule which can accept an electron to form a chemical bond.
  4. (biochemistry) A transfer RNA molecule that can accept a specific amino acid
  5. (physics) A chemical acceptor atom forming a positive hole in a semiconductor
  6. (physiology) A cluster of skin cells that respond to pain
  7. (computing theory) A kind of finite-state machine whose binary output indicates whether or not a received input was accepted.
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  9. Examples:
    1. “This kind of analysis can provide some information about the arrangement of acceptor molecules and intermolecular interactions.”
      “This enzyme may also act as a glutamyl peptidase, requiring only water as an acceptor.”
      “The energetics of proton transfer can be envisaged as a double-well potential where the proton is transferred from a donor to the acceptor.”
acceptation
  1. (obsolete) Acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard; the state of being acceptable.
  2. The meaning in which a word or expression is understood, or generally received.
  3. Ready belief.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “It is a maxim worthy of all acceptation that a man may have that allowance he takes.”
      “This decree of the Senate was submitted to the acceptation of the French people.”
      “The powers that are conferred on the trustee, or manager, do not convert the unit trusts into discretionary trusts in the normal acceptation of that term.”
accepter
  1. A person who accepts; a taker.
  2. (obsolete) A respecter; a viewer with partiality.
  3. (law) An acceptor; one who accepts an order or a bill of exchange.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Because of this expectation that the accepter will somehow requite the gift, Scripture tells us to be very selective in accepting gifts.”
      “The giver and the accepter are principally answerable in an unjust donation.”
      “An Englishman took the bill, and after a careful examination said he neither knew the drawer, the accepter, nor the backer.”
acceptability
  1. The quality of being acceptable; acceptableness.
  2. (military) Operation plan review criterion. The determination as to whether the contemplated course of action is worth the cost in manpower, materiel, and time involved; is consistent with the law of war; and is militarily and politically supportable. (JP 1-02 Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms)
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Methods of distributing alternative monies and ensuring their acceptability as payment are still being ironed out.”
      “Put up litter bins and ash trays for their dog-ends and it just legitimises it more from an acceptability stance.”
      “Formative evaluation was used to refine program elements and establish feasibility and acceptability.”
acceptableness
acceptee
  1. A person who accepts, or is accepted for, a position
acception
  1. (obsolete) acceptation; the received meaning.
acceptress
  1. (rare) A female acceptor.
acceptivity
  1. The quality of being acceptive.
acceptaunce
  1. Obsolete form of acceptance.
acceptour
  1. (rare) Obsolete spelling of acceptor
acceptingness
  1. The ability or desire to accept.
acceptant
  1. One who accepts something.
acceptancy
  1. acceptance
  2. Examples:
    1. “You know I have no fresh first devotion to offer you, I have not even a heart swept and garnished for your acceptancy.”
      “Any order constitutes acceptancy of the terms and conditions.”
      “A more pleasant handling will ensure user acceptancy.”
acceptabilities
acceptations
  1. plural of acceptation
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “He would now be quite interested in the various usages of the term, its numerous acceptations and definitions, and the way it has infiltrated the discourse in and on the arts.”
      “He said any type of information could be given to the applicants except those where there were certain legal acceptations.”
acceptaunces
  1. plural of acceptaunce
acceptances
  1. plural of acceptance
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The markets for bills of exchange and bankers' acceptances are simply too small to be of any use.”
      “Hatfield also devoted three and a half pages to the recording and valuation of book accounts, acceptances, and promissory notes.”
      “Other fixed-interest investments such as T-bills, bankers' acceptances and certificates of deposit are also popular.”
acceptresses
  1. plural of acceptress
acceptions
  1. plural of acception
acceptants
  1. plural of acceptant
acceptours
  1. plural of acceptour
accepters
  1. plural of accepter
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  3. Examples:
    1. “There are only around 100 000 card accepters in South Africa serving a population of around 60 million.”
      “According to Rothstein's classification of hosts based on ejection frequencies, robins would be considered accepters of both white and blue cuckoo eggs.”
acceptees
  1. plural of acceptee
acceptors
  1. plural of acceptor
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “O'Brien's blanket entry left the Tote quoting the trainer at 13-8 to lift the sprint prize without naming any of his eight acceptors.”
      “Additionally, it is now known that the effective quantum yield of MLCs can be increased by RET to high quantum yield acceptors.”
      “Identical results were obtained by Willis and Szabo using tyrosine in the presence of acetate and other proton acceptors.”
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