Acceptance
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English
Noun
Acceptance (plural Acceptances)- The act of accepting; a receiving of something offered, with approbation, satisfaction, or acquiescence; especially, favorable reception; approval
- State of being accepted.
- (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.
- (business, finance) The bill of exchange itself when accepted.
- An agreeing to terms or proposals by which a bargain is concluded and the parties are bound; 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 possession as owner.
- (law) An agreeing to the action of another, by some act which binds the person in law.
- (US government) The act of an authorized representative of the Government by which the Government assents to ownership by it of existing and identified supplies, or approves specific services rendered, as partial or complete performance of a contract.
- (obsolete) acceptation
- (Australian and New Zealand, plural) A list of horses accepted as starters in a race.
Adjectives for Acceptance
happy; warm; joyous; incoherent; placent: wholesale; unanimous; fearless; impulsive; stoical; resigned; public; frank; modified; glib; skeptical; slavish; loathsome; unquestioning; ready; belated; simulated; good-natured; pacific; philosophic; reluctant; social; implicit; relieved; gracious; grudging; fatalistic; passive; phlegmatic; appreciatory; wide; delayed; patient; ironical; cheerful; general; unreserved; credulous; grave; grandiloquent.
Verbs for Acceptance
authorize -; coax -; confirm -; elicit -; find -; guarantee -; meet with -; presuppose -; - displays; - precludes.
Thesaurus
compliance; composure; concession; concurrence; confession; confirmation; connivance; consent; content; contentedness; contentment; countenance; countersignature; debenture; declaration; deference; demand bill; demand draft; derivation; draft; due bill; eagerness; ease; easiness; easygoingness; embracement; endorsement; endurance; enlistment; enrollment; entire satisfaction; espousal; esteem; euphoria; exchequer bill; favor; favorable vote; forbearance; forbearing; forbearingness; fortitude; fulfillment; general agreement; gentleness; getting; go-ahead; green light; happiness; hearty assent; homage; humaneness; humanity; immission; imprimatur; inauguration; induction; indulgence; initiation; installation; instatement; intromission; investiture; kneeling; laxness; lenience; leniency; lenientness; lenity; letter of credit; long-sufferance; long-suffering; longanimity; mercifulness; mercy; mildness; moderateness; money order; negotiable instrument; nod; nonopposal; nonopposition; nonresistance; notarization; note; note of hand; obedience; obeisance; okay; ordination; paper; passiveness; passivity; patience; patience of Job; patientness; peace of mind; permission; perseverance; pity; postal order; profession; promissory note; promptitude; promptness; ratification; readiness; receipt; receival; received meaning; receiving; reception; recognition; reconcilement; reconciliation; resignation; resignedness; respect; rubber stamp; sanction; satisfaction; seal; seal of approval; self-control; sight bill; sight draft; sigil; signature; signet; softness; stamp; stamp of approval; stoicism; subjection; submission; submittal; subscription; sufferance; supineness; support; sweet reasonableness; taking; tenderness; the nod; time bill; time draft; tolerance; toleration; trade acceptance; treasury bill; ungrudgingness; unloathness; unreluctance; usage; validation; visa; vise; voice; vote; voucher; waiting game; waiting it out; warm assent; warrant; welcome; well-being; willingness; yea; yea vote; yielding, CD; IOU; John Hancock; MO; OK; acceptance bill; acceptation; acception; accession; accord; acknowledgment; acquiescence; acquisition; adherence; admiration; admission; admittance; adoption; affiliation; affirmance; affirmation; affirmative; affirmative voice; agreement; agreement in principle; allowance; appreciation; approbation; approval; assent; assentation; assumption; authentication; authorization; avowal; aye; bank acceptance; bank check; baptism; bill; bill of draft; bill of exchange; blank check; blessing; certificate; certificate of deposit; certification; certified check; check; checkbook; cheque; clemency; clementness; comfort; commercial paper; compassion; complaisance;
Pronunciation
Etymology
From Old French accepter; see also accept
Synonyms
- (act of accepting): accepting, receiving, reception, approval
- (State of being accepted): acceptableness
- (commerce, assent and engagement of a bill of exchange): assent
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