to take or receive (something offered); receive with approval or favor:
to accept a present; to accept a proposal.
2.
to agree or consent to; accede to:
to accept a treaty; to accept an apology.
3.
to respond or answer affirmatively to:
to accept an invitation.
4.
to undertake the responsibility, duties, honors, etc., of:
to accept the office of president.
5.
to receive or admit formally, as to a college or club.
6.
to accommodate or reconcile oneself to:
to accept the situation.
7.
to regard as true or sound; believe:
to accept a claim; to accept Catholicism.
8.
to regard as normal, suitable, or usual.
9.
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.
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).
Examples from the web for accepted
After a crime is perpetrated, it is generally accepted that society must be protected from further acts.
Generally the new theory isn't accepted until it predicts more than the old.
Yet in five cases, officials agreed to allow him back on the road if he accepted one citation and paid hundreds of dollars.
Imagine you could write cheques that were accepted as payment but never cashed.
There's even a ridiculous accepted equation for dark energy using constants.
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.
We do not use any articles submitted to, accepted by, or published by another publication.
British Dictionary definitions for accepted
accepted
/əkˈsɛptɪd/
adjective
1.
commonly approved or recognized; customary; established
Derived Forms
acceptedly, adverb
accept
/əkˈsɛpt/
verb (mainly transitive)
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) (intransitive) sometimes foll by of. to take or receive an offer, invitation, etc
Derived Forms
accepter, noun
Word Origin
C14: from Latin acceptāre, from ad- to + capere to take
Word Origin and History for accepted
accept
v.
late 14c., "to take what is offered," from Old French accepter (14c.) or directly from Latin acceptare "take or receive willingly," frequentative of accipere "receive," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + capere "to take" (see capable). Related: Accepted; accepting.