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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
accepted
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an accepted convention
▪ Saying 'thank you' and 'please' is an accepted convention.
an accepted/received notion (=an idea that most people believe)
▪ These women challenged accepted notions of female roles in society.
generally regarded/accepted/known etc
▪ The plants are generally regarded as weeds.
▪ a generally accepted view
treated/recognized/accepted etc as such
▪ Birth is a natural process, and should be treated as such.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
generally
▪ Nation usually speaks louder than ideology; as a result, the generally accepted notions of government and opposition break down.
▪ Some difficulties arise, however, from the generally accepted distinction.
▪ It is not therefore possible at present for the public finance economist to appeal to a generally accepted body of theory.
▪ The generally accepted surveillance policy in most centres today is regular colonoscopy for patients with longstanding extensive colitis.
▪ In the field of criminal investigation there are as yet no advanced and generally accepted standards of professional competence.
▪ At Low Birk Hatt we didn't have Christmases in the generally accepted sense.
▪ The definition of power Immediately we have difficulties since there seems to be no generally accepted agreement on the meaning of power.
▪ Both writers and readers are affected by generally accepted ideas, without necessarily having given them independent thought.
universally
▪ Currently there are no universally accepted standards for environmental auditors to work toward, although they are beginning to be developed.
▪ Here was a period when a universally accepted order could be discovered with a resulting social and political stability.
▪ They relate to universally accepted behaviour patterns - salutations, manners, dress, etc.
▪ This was not yet a universally accepted point of view.
widely
▪ Semantic relationships show aspects of the genus-species relationships and are expected to reflect assumed and widely accepted subject relationships.
■ NOUN
part
▪ By 1905 learning to design station grounds had become an accepted part of landscape architectural education.
▪ White-collar crime appeared to be a normal and accepted part of business practice, being both very costly and highly organised.
▪ For the vast majority of people however, drinking can form an accepted part of a balanced and healthy lifestyle.
practice
▪ Besides, a refusal would seem as if she placed too much importance on an accepted practice.
▪ For example, it may become tacitly accepted practice in a market exactly to match the price changes of the largest firm.
▪ Bigamy, for example, is a serious crime in Britain yet it is normal and accepted practice in other countries.
▪ To depart substantially from them invites question unless it can be demonstrated that such departure conforms to accepted practice by rational analysis.
▪ It was accepted practice for employers to admit women to schemes at older ages than men - 30 was not uncommon.
▪ Everything about Shanti's adoption was against accepted practice.
▪ Where there is only one accepted practice, then following this practice will not amount to negligence.
▪ Which - the accepted practice with trump-cards, or the feelings - is primary?
principle
▪ The accepted principle was that you should not define your cause before starting the revolution.
▪ This has led to a departure from the generally accepted principle of state funding for educational projects.
sense
▪ The first point is that they were largely developmental rather than research in the accepted sense.
▪ At Low Birk Hatt we didn't have Christmases in the generally accepted sense.
▪ We didn't fish in the accepted sense, which I've always thought was a ghoulish thing to do anyway.
▪ The remedies, therefore, do not have side-effects in the accepted sense of the word.
▪ Although some modern dancers do without music in the accepted sense of that term, they rarely do without rhythmic phrasing.
▪ It is debatable whether he ever envisaged trailer operation in its accepted sense, with trailers being detached at off-peak times.
standard
▪ In the field of criminal investigation there are as yet no advanced and generally accepted standards of professional competence.
▪ The accepted standards of political morality differed from our own; evidence is hard to come by and difficult to interpret.
▪ Currently there are no universally accepted standards for environmental auditors to work toward, although they are beginning to be developed.
▪ Thus the scientific model of verification has an inbuilt mechanism for the evolution and promotion of generally accepted standards.
▪ They are able to monitor their progress closely and to relate effort and performance to accepted standards.
view
▪ The accepted view holds its own.
▪ The generally accepted view is that the people of Lewis opposed Lord Leverhulme's schemes.
way
▪ These are the two accepted ways of playing the rising ball.
▪ How willing were abolitionists to challenge both the accepted ways of acting publicly and by whom the action should be undertaken?
▪ Public transport was an accepted way of travelling.
▪ So jail is not new to him, in those days it was an accepted way of life.
▪ Gratuities formed part of the old, traditional and accepted way of conducting business: set charges were the innovation.
▪ Culture defines accepted ways of behaving for members of a particular society.
▪ They didn't believe in what was then the accepted way of drilling things into you.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A spokesman claimed, "Our methods are far more advanced and more accepted than ICI's."
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Einstein, therefore, set to work to try to demolish the accepted version of quantum mechanics.
▪ It may also be necessary to adjust accepted labour constants to the actual circumstances of the job.
▪ Since the Congress of Vienna, a general diplomatic system had provided the accepted channels of international relations.
▪ The Masai never accepted football as the moral equivalent of war.
▪ They had to be more specific about the traditionally accepted forms of behaviour, customs, occupations and particular national characteristics.
▪ This hypothesis not only flouts accepted biological principles but is unnecessary.
▪ What are the processes by which the role of women within the trade unions has emerged as an accepted research topic?
▪ Yet Einstein never accepted quantum mechanics because of its element of chance and uncertainty.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Accepted

Accept \Ac*cept"\ ([a^]k*s[e^]pt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accepted; p. pr. & vb. n. Accepting.] [F. accepter, L. acceptare, freq. of accipere; ad + capere to take; akin to E. heave.]

  1. To receive with a consenting mind (something offered); as, to accept a gift; -- often followed by of.

    If you accept them, then their worth is great.
    --Shak.

    To accept of ransom for my son.
    --Milton.

    She accepted of a treat.
    --Addison.

  2. To receive with favor; to approve.

    The Lord accept thy burnt sacrifice.
    --Ps. xx.

  3. Peradventure he will accept of me.
    --Gen. xxxii. 20.

    3. To receive or admit and agree to; to assent to; as, I accept your proposal, amendment, or excuse.

  4. To take by the mind; to understand; as, How are these words to be accepted?

  5. (Com.) To receive as obligatory and promise to pay; as, to accept a bill of exchange.
    --Bouvier.

  6. In a deliberate body, to receive in acquittance of a duty imposed; as, to accept the report of a committee. [This makes it the property of the body, and the question is then on its adoption.]

    To accept a bill (Law), to agree (on the part of the drawee) to pay it when due.

    To accept service (Law), to agree that a writ or process shall be considered as regularly served, when it has not been.

    To accept the person (Eccl.), to show favoritism. ``God accepteth no man's person.''
    --Gal. ii. 6.

    Syn: To receive; take; admit. See Receive.

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Wiktionary
accepted

  1. Generally approved, believed, or recognized. v

  2. (en-past of: accept)

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WordNet
accepted

  1. adj. generally approved or compelling recognition; "several accepted techniques for treating the condition"; "his recognized superiority in this kind of work" [syn: recognized, recognised]

  2. generally agreed upon; not subject to dispute; "the accepted interpretation of the poem"; "an accepted theory" [syn: undisputed]

  3. generally accepted or used; "accepted methods of harmony and melody"; "three accepted types of pump"

  4. judged to be in conformity with approved usage; "acceptable English usage" [syn: acceptable]

  5. widely or permanently accepted; "an accepted precedent"

  6. widely accepted as true or worthy; "the accepted wisdom about old age"; "a received moral idea"; "Received political wisdom says not; surveys show otherwise"- Economist [syn: received]

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Wikipedia
Accepted

Accepted is a 2006 American comedy film directed by Steve Pink and written by Adam Cooper, Bill Collage, and Mark Perez. The plot follows a group of high school graduates who create their own fake college after being rejected from the colleges to which they applied. The story takes place in Wickliffe and a fictitious college town called Harmon in Ohio. Filming took place in Los Angeles and Orange in California at Chapman University. This film was later remade in Bollywood as F.A.L.T.U starring Jackky Bhagnani.

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Usage examples of "accepted".

This dictum became, two years later, accepted doctrine when the Court invalidated a State law on the ground that it abridged freedom of speech contrary to the due process clause of Amendment XIV.

That determination had become an obsession now, which he recognized for what it was-the sole reason for his survival and for his recently taken decision firstly to be accepted as a reformed and model prisoner at Port Arthur and secondly to abscond therefrom.

Was that why he had accepted her small, childlike challenge on the steps of the Albergo Monte Gazza?

The reports of the amnestic effects of protein synthesis inhibitors were first ignored, often on the same sorts of a priori grounds that had led to my initial scepticism, and only after some struggle accepted by these definers of the field.

He had never accepted the theory of andromedotoxin poisoning that Grace had put forward and was even less happy with the idea of a fatal dose of arsenic delivered through the medium of the unfortunate pheasant and, what was more, he knew Grace could never have subscribed to these theories either.

By antagonizing this declaration the Democrats strove to convince the country that it was the accepted doctrine of their political opponents, and that they were themselves the true and tried friends of the Union.

Decades elapsed, for instance, before the apologetic theology came to be generally known and accepted in the Church, as is shown by the long continued conflict against Monarchianism.

The Gnostic speculations were repudiated, whereas those of the Apologists were accepted.

He had accepted the town from Arai, thinking it would make a home for his sons and grandsons.

Soon we were informed that the English Government communicated to our Ambassador to London Barcza that they accepted the news of the Arbitrage with pleasure and contentment.

Finally it is agreed that the arbitrament of Diana shall be invited and accepted as conclusive.

As a rule, this artificiality is accepted as Irishism, or Yeats is even credited with simplicity because he uses short words, but in fact one seldom comes on six consecutive lines of his verse in which there is not an archaism or an affected turn of speech.

Gardner accepted his sister the way he might have accepted - Asey tried to think of a suitable simile as he climbed into the roadster.

I was only astonished that the cardinal had so readily accepted my choice.

Hitler became a strong, authoritarian leader and many of the German people accepted his control.