Acceptance
Meanings and phrases
acceptance
- the mental attitude that something is believable and should be accepted as true; credence
- the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception; adoption; acceptation; espousal
- the state of being acceptable and accepted
- (contract law) words signifying consent to the terms of an offer (thereby creating a contract)
- banking: a time draft drawn on and accepted by a bank; banker's acceptance
- the act of taking something that is offered
- a disposition to tolerate or accept people or situations; toleration; sufferance
n.
- a statistical procedure for accepting or rejecting a batch of merchandise or documents; involves determining the maximum number of defects discovered in a sample before the entire batch is rejected
n.
- a bill of exchange for a specific purchase; drawn on the buyer by the seller and bearing the buyer's acceptance
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- Valvano's ESPY acceptance speech became legendary.
- She dedicated her award to Glatzer in her acceptance speech.
- She then called Swift from backstage to complete her acceptance speech.
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- In fall 2015, the university's acceptance rate was 45%.
- The acceptance rate for admissions is around fifteen percent.
- The acceptance rate for undergraduate applicants in fall 2013 was 65.5%.
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- This proposal and name have met with widespread acceptance.
- Such diverse theories have failed to command widespread acceptance.
- To achieve widespread acceptance, this encapsulation was based on popular usage.
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- The bikini has gradually gained wide acceptance in Western society.
- Since then the proof has gained wide acceptance, although some doubters remain.
- M. Snædal similarly notes that none of these proposals has achieved wide acceptance.
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- Humans generally require social acceptance and thus sometimes dread the disapproval of others.
- Wider social acceptance is shown in studies to have been crucial in easing trauma for child soldiers.
- In 2005, Multnomah County Circuit Judge Doug Beckman said "I think there's a broader social acceptance for users of marijuana.
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- However, no alternative solution has gained general acceptance.
- Like other social developments in Canada, the general acceptance of Canadian English has taken its time.
- The original Robot Chemist, marketed in 1959, was a desk-sized instrument that appeared to be too large for general acceptance.
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- Even so, the drive to gain acceptance did not go unchallenged.
- Some adolescents gain acceptance and recognition from their peers by conformity.
- By such means, a hypothesis may gain acceptance, although in a probabilistic, rather than certain, sense.
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- Köhler's views have not found wide acceptance among Nietzsche scholars and commentators.
- Throughout much of the 20th century, the Copenhagen interpretation had overwhelming acceptance among physicists.
- Some time before 1915 he developed a wheat pickling machine, which found considerable acceptance among practical farmers.
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- Formal U.S. Navy acceptance trials for the XF4U-1 began in February 1941.
- The Yakovlev OKB concluded its testing on 24 September and turned over the second prototype for state acceptance trials on 22 October.
- Named for the largest African land animal, the elephant, the ship was accepted by the Namibian Navy on 3 July 2012 after sea acceptance trials were completed.