Usually means: Recognition and approval of reality.
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We found 47 dictionaries that define the word acceptance:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. acceptance: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. acceptance: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. acceptance: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. acceptance: Collins English Dictionary
  5. acceptance: Vocabulary.com
  6. Acceptance, acceptance: Wordnik
  7. acceptance: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. acceptance: Wiktionary
  9. acceptance: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. acceptance: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. acceptance: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. acceptance: Dictionary.com
  13. acceptance: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Acceptance (Heroes), Acceptance (House), Acceptance (Southern Reach Trilogy), Acceptance (band), Acceptance (disambiguation), Acceptance (film), Acceptance (novel), Acceptance: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Acceptance: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. acceptance: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. acceptance: Rhymezone
  18. acceptance: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. acceptance: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. acceptance: Free Dictionary
  21. acceptance: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. acceptance: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. Acceptance: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. acceptance: Merriam-Webster.com

Business (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. acceptance: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  4. acceptance: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  7. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  8. ACCEPTANCE: Accounting Glossary
  9. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  10. acceptance: Finance-Glossary.com
  11. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  12. Acceptance: Investopedia
  13. Glossary of International Trade Terms (No longer online)
  14. Acceptance: INSOLVENCY
  15. acceptance: Legal dictionary
  16. acceptance: Financial dictionary
  17. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. acceptance: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) The act of accepting; the receiving of something offered, with acquiescence, approbation, or satisfaction; especially, favourable reception; approval.
noun:  (countable) An instance of that act.
noun:  Belief in something; agreement, assent.
noun:  The state of being accepted.
noun:  The usual or accepted meaning of a word or expression.
noun:  (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; the bill of exchange itself when accepted.
noun:  (law) An agreeing to the action, proposals, or terms of another by some act which results in the conclusion of a legally binding contract; 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 of possession of a thing as owner.
noun:  (government, US) The act of an authorized representative of the government by which the government assents to ownership of existing and identified supplies, or approves specific services rendered, as partial or complete performance of a contract.
noun:  (horse racing, Australia, New Zealand, plural only) A list of horses accepted as starters in a race.
noun:  (optics) Synonym of etendue.

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