Usually means: Consent to receive or undertake.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. accept: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. accept: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. accept: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. accept: Collins English Dictionary
  5. accept: Vocabulary.com
  6. Accept, accept, accept: Wordnik
  7. accept: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. accept: Wiktionary
  9. accept: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. accept: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. accept: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. accept: Dictionary.com
  13. accept: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. accept: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Accept (Accept album), Accept (Chicken Shack Album), Accept (Chicken Shack album), Accept (band), Accept (organization), Accept: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Accept: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. accept: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. accept: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. accept: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. accept: Free Dictionary
  21. accept: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. accept: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  23. accept: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. accept: Rhymezone
  25. accept: Merriam-Webster.com

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. accept: Law.com Dictionary
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. Accept (band), accept: Legal dictionary
  6. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. accept: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Accept (band), accept: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. accept: Idioms
  3. ACCEPT: Acronym Finder

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Accept: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Accept: Chess Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dictionary for Avionics (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.
verb:  (transitive) To admit to a place or a group.
verb:  (transitive) To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in.
verb:  (transitive) To receive as adequate or satisfactory.
verb:  (transitive) To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.
verb:  (transitive) To endure patiently.
verb:  (transitive) To acknowledge patiently without opposition or resistance.
verb:  (transitive, law, business) To agree to pay.
verb:  (transitive) To receive officially.
verb:  (intransitive) To receive something willingly.
verb:  (Philippines) To do a service done by an establishment.
adjective:  (Early Modern, obsolete) Accepted.
noun:  (computing) Something that is accepted.

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