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Implement and Accept

noun

  • Instrumentation (a piece of equipment or tool) used to effect an end.

verb

  • Apply in a manner consistent with its purpose or design.
    • usage: "implement a procedure"
  • Ensure observance of laws and rules.
    • usage: "Apply the rules to everyone";
  • Pursue to a conclusion or bring to a successful issue.
    • usage: "Did he go through with the treatment"; "He implemented a new economic plan"; "She followed up his recommendations with a written proposal"

verb

  • Consider or hold as true.
    • usage: "I cannot accept the dogma of this church"; "accept an argument"
  • Receive willingly something given or offered.
    • usage: "The only girl who would have him was the miller's daughter"; "I won't have this dog in my house"; "Please accept my present"
  • Give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to.
    • usage: "I cannot accept your invitation"; "I go for this resolution"
  • React favorably to; consider right and proper.
    • usage: "People did not accept atonal music at that time"; "We accept the idea of universal health care"
  • Admit into a group or community.
    • usage: "accept students for graduate study"; "We'll have to vote on whether or not to admit a new member"
  • Take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person.
    • usage: "I'll accept the charges"; "She agreed to bear the responsibility"
  • Tolerate or accommodate oneself to.
    • usage: "I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions"; "I swallowed the insult"; "She has learned to live with her husband's little idiosyncrasies"
  • Be designed to hold or take.
    • usage: "This surface will not take the dye"
  • Receive (a report) officially, as from a committee.
  • Make use of or accept for some purpose.
    • usage: "take a risk"; "take an opportunity"
  • Be sexually responsive to, used of a female domesticated mammal.
    • usage: "The cow accepted the bull"