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

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. acknowledge: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. ACKNOWLEDGE: Acronym Finder
  3. acknowledge: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in
verb:  (transitive) To own or recognize in a particular quality, character or relationship; to admit the claims or authority of; to give recognition to.
verb:  (transitive) To be grateful of (e.g. a benefit or a favour)
verb:  (transitive) To report (the receipt of a message to its sender).
verb:  (transitive) To own as genuine or valid; to assent to (a legal instrument) to give it validity; to avow or admit in legal form.

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