Verb
1. consider or hold as true;
"I cannot accept the dogma of this church""accept an argument"2. receive willingly something given or offered;
"The only girl who would have him was the miller's daughter""I won't have this dog in my house!""Please accept my present"3. give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to;
"I cannot accept your invitation""I go for this resolution"4. react favorably to; consider right and proper;
"People did not accept atonal music at that time""We accept the idea of universal health care"5. admit into a group or community;
"accept students for graduate study""We'll have to vote on whether or not to admit a new member"6. take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person;
"I'll accept the charges""She agreed to bear the responsibility"7. tolerate or accommodate oneself to;
"I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions""I swallowed the insult""She has learned to live with her husband's little idiosyncracies"8. be designed to hold or take;
"This surface will not take the dye"9. of a deliberative body: receive (a report) officially, as from a committee
10. make use of or accept for some purpose;
"take a risk""take an opportunity"11. be sexually responsive to, used of a female domesticated mammal;
"The cow accepted the bull"