<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) to take or receive (something offered); receive with approval or favor: to accept a present; to accept a proposal.</li><li>Antonyms: reject</li><li>to agree or consent to; accede to: to accept a treaty; to accept an apology.</li><li>Synonyms: concede</li><li>to respond or answer affirmatively to: to accept an invitation.</li><li>to undertake the responsibility, duties, honors, etc., of: to accept the office of president.</li><li>to receive or admit formally, as to a college or club.</li><li>to accommodate or reconcile oneself to: to accept the situation.</li><li>to regard as true or sound; believe: to accept a claim; to accept Catholicism.</li><li>Synonyms: acknowledge</li><li>to regard as normal, suitable, or usual.</li><li>to receive as to meaning; understand.</li><li>Commerce: to acknowledge, by signature, as calling for payment, and thus to agree to pay, as a draft.</li><li>(in a deliberative body) to receive as an adequate performance of the duty with which an officer or a committee has been charged; receive for further action: The report of the committee was accepted.</li><li>to receive or contain (something attached, inserted, etc.): This socket won't accept a three-pronged plug.</li><li>to receive (a transplanted organ or tissue) without adverse reaction.</li><li>Compare reject (def 7).</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>to accept an invitation, gift, position, etc. (sometimes followed by of).</li></ul>