Usually means: Meeting the required or agreed standards.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word acceptable:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. acceptable: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. acceptable: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. acceptable: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. acceptable: Collins English Dictionary
  5. acceptable: Vocabulary.com
  6. Acceptable, acceptable: Wordnik
  7. acceptable: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. acceptable: Wiktionary
  9. acceptable: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. acceptable: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. acceptable: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Acceptable, acceptable: Dictionary.com
  13. acceptable: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Acceptable: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. acceptable: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. acceptable: Rhymezone
  17. Acceptable, acceptable: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. acceptable: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. acceptable: Free Dictionary
  20. acceptable: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. acceptable: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. acceptable: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  23. acceptable: Merriam-Webster.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. acceptable: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. acceptable: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. acceptable: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. acceptable: Idioms

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Worthy, decent, sure of being accepted or received with at least moderate pleasure.
adjective:  Barely worthy, less than excellent; passable.
noun:  Someone or something that is acceptable.

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