acceptance

[əkˈseptəns]

Definition:
1. The act of accepting a gift, an invitation, an offer, etc.
2. The act of agreeing with something and approving of it.
3. The process of allowing somebody to join something or be a member of a group.
4. The mental attitude that something is believable and should be accepted as true.

Use 'acceptance' in a sentence:

1. Acceptance of women preachers varies greatly from denomination to denomination.
2. There is still no widespread acceptance that men and women are equal.
3. It took years for Einstein's theory to gain acceptance.
4. Children not as liked by their first-grade peers had slightly lower grades in fifth grade, while those with higher social acceptance had higher grades.
5. Do you see any possible acceptance of such policies by politicians and their economic advisors?
6. The view has not received wide acceptance.
7. Stewart expected him to remonstrate, and was surprised at his acceptance of defeat.
8. Despite continued widespread public acceptance of the glass ceiling idea and some consistent findings, most research to date has failed to support the increasing-disadvantage model.
9. Social acceptance by peers in early childhood also predicted grades in fifth grade.
10. The proposal found general acceptance.
11. You won't be able to laugh at yourself without self-acceptance.
12. The employer gave acceptance to the worker's suggestions.
13. Within each category, the rate of acceptance for domestic films was the same as that for foreign films.
14. Several shareholders have withdrawn earlier acceptances of the offer.
15. I beg you would do me the honour to sup with me, though my entertainment may not be worthy your acceptance.
16. Popular acceptance of authority had been an early aim of the Nationalists.
17. The RA of two years added that while some conflicts "provided more multicultural acceptance and melding", there were also "jarring cultural confrontations".
18. So far I've received two acceptances and four rejections.
19. There are many things that we only truly understand through acceptance and joy.
20. The answer to that depends on perceptions of goal acceptance and the organisation's culture.
21. The country is still hopeful that it will meet its emissions goals, like reducing emissions by 40% by 2020, but the acceptance of electric cars in the country has not occurred as fast as expected.
22. Her eyes were all acceptance.
23. The most impressive thing about him is his calm acceptance of whatever comes his way.
24. The acceptance of new members is strictly controlled.
25. The new law has gained acceptance in academic circles.
26. The agony of her loss had become numb acceptance of it.
27. Art photography kind of took its place, so you can imagine that a portrait artist, would have had a hard time finding acceptance.
28. There seems to be a grudging acceptance of the situation.
29. This hard-won sense of self-acceptance is one of the joys of being an older woman.
30. Please confirm your acceptance of this offer in writing.
31. the acceptance and tolerance of other ways.
32. Despite his autonomy, Marconi felt alienated and suffered from a lack of acceptance.
33. Her uncritical acceptance of everything I said began to irritate me.
34. This can help develop understanding, acceptance and appreciation of diversity.
35. Integrity had collapsed, she argued, because of a collective acceptance that the only "sorting mechanism" in society should be profit and the market.
36. The new laws have gained widespread acceptance.
37. Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.
38. A spirit of openness is gaining acceptance in the science community, and is the only way, say advocates, to address a 'crisis' in science whereby too few findings are successfully reproduced.
39. It is symptomatic of the swing between the outright rejection and qualified acceptance of the medium that was fairly typical of the artistic establishment.
40. The non acceptance of the new flavor by a significant portion of the public brought about a prompt restoration of the Classic Coke, which was then marketed alongside the new.
41. There was a general acceptance that the defence budget would shrink.
42. Your acceptance into the insurance plan is guaranteed.
43. I sent them more than 6,000 cartoons before I had my one and only acceptance by them.
44. I didn't know whether to interpret her silence as acceptance or refusal.
45. Job-hopping, once a rare phenomenon, is gaining acceptance.
46. Car manufacturers are already producing small numbers of electric vehicles to test customer acceptance.
47. Avant-garde music to this day has not found general public acceptance.
48. The settlement of the issue must not be conditional upon the acceptance of fait accompli.
49. A very determined effort by society will ensure that the disabled achieve real acceptance and integration.
50. The overall rate of acceptance of domestic films was significantly higher than that of foreign films.
51. But it takes collective scrutiny and acceptance to transform a discovery claim into a mature discovery.
52. The Party is being degraded by its acceptance of secret donations.
53. Even passive acceptance of the regime was a kind of collaboration.
54. Social acceptance is important for most young people.