ACCEPTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does accepting mean? 

• ACCEPTING (adjective)
  The adjective ACCEPTING has 1 sense:

1. tolerating without protest

  Familiarity information: ACCEPTING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACCEPTING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tolerating without protest

Context example:

the atmosphere was judged to be more supporting and accepting

Similar:

acceptive (inclined to accept rather than reject)

 Context examples 

When she came there of an evening, she always shrunk from accepting his escort home, and ran away with me instead.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Some of the "New Women" writers will some day start an idea that men and women should be allowed to see each other asleep before proposing or accepting.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He had a method of accepting things, without questioning the why and wherefore.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

He was only wrong in accepting the attentions (for accepting must be the word) of two young women at once.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The other lion was the fact that they were poor and Laurie rich, for this made them shy of accepting favors which they could not return.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Accepting it as correct, we are now able to say that the symbols stand respectively for N, V, and R.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"I appreciate them for accepting this job. We did this one together."

(Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya runs marathon under two hours, Wikinews)

A cloning vector based upon the bacteriophage P1, with capability in accepting larger DNA inserts.

(P1-derived Artificial Chromosome, NCI Thesaurus)

If it were one which would also admit of the mysterious note with its very curious phraseology, why, then it would be worth accepting as a temporary hypothesis.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If you can conceive me as a thin and colourless cord upon which my would-be pearls are strung, you will be accepting me upon the terms which I should wish.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)