accept

to respond or answer affirmatively to: to accept an invitation.

to undertake the responsibility, duties, honors, etc., of: to accept the office of president.

to receive or admit formally, as to a college or club.

to accommodate or reconcile oneself to: to accept the situation.

to regard as true or sound; believe: to accept a claim;to accept Catholicism.

to regard as normal, suitable, or usual.

to receive as to meaning; understand.

Commerce. to acknowledge, by signature, as calling for payment, and thus to agree to pay, as a draft.

(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.

to receive or contain (something attached, inserted, etc.): This socket won't accept a three-pronged plug.

to receive (a transplanted organ or tissue) without adverse reaction.: Compare reject (def. 7).

to take on the responsibilities, duties, etc, of: he accepted office

to tolerate or accommodate oneself to

to consider as true or believe in (a philosophy, theory, etc): I cannot accept your argument

(may take a clause as object) to be willing to grant or believe: you must accept that he lied

to receive with approval or admit, as into a community, group, etc

commerce to agree to pay (a bill, draft, shipping document, etc), esp by signing

to receive as adequate, satisfactory, or valid

to receive, take, or hold (something applied, inserted, etc)

(intr sometimes foll by of) archaic to take or receive an offer, invitation, etc