accepting

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
accept/əkˈsept/

▶verb

• 1 consent to receive or undertake (something offered).

• 2 regard with approval.

• 3 believe to be valid or correct.

• 4 take on (a responsibility or liability).

  ■ tolerate or submit to (something undesirable).

– derivatives
acceptance noun,
acceptant adjective (rare),
acceptor (also accepter) noun.

– origin ME: from L. acceptare, from accipere, from ad- ‘to’ + capere ‘take’.