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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A statement acknowledging something or someone
Example:
the preface contained an acknowledgment of those who had helped her
Synonyms:
acknowledgement; acknowledgment
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("acknowledgement" is a kind of...):
content; message; subject matter; substance (what a communication that is about something is about)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "acknowledgement"):
credits (a list of acknowledgements of those who contributed to the creation of a film (usually run at the end of the film))
receipt (an acknowledgment (usually tangible) that payment has been made)
farewell; word of farewell (an acknowledgment or expression of goodwill at parting)
greeting; salutation ((usually plural) an acknowledgment or expression of good will (especially on meeting))
aloha; ciao (an acknowledgment that can be used to say hello or goodbye (aloha is Hawaiian and ciao is Italian))
handclasp; handshake; handshaking; shake (grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract))
apology (an expression of regret at having caused trouble for someone)
mea culpa (an acknowledgment of your error or guilt)
commiseration; condolence (an expression of sympathy with another's grief)
declination; regrets (a polite refusal of an invitation)
admission (an acknowledgment of the truth of something)
thanks (an acknowledgment of appreciation)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged
Example:
she seems to avoid much in the way of recognition or acknowledgement of feminist work prior to her own
Synonyms:
acknowledgement; acknowledgment; recognition
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("acknowledgement" is a kind of...):
acceptance (the state of being acceptable and accepted)
Attribute:
acknowledged (recognized or made known or admitted)
unacknowledged (not recognized or admitted)
Context examples:
I bowed my acknowledgements, and said, my aunt had mentioned to me that there was that opening, and that I believed I should like it very much.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
As he said this with a gentle melancholy, which was the next thing to making no charge at all, I expressed my acknowledgements on Peggotty's behalf, and paid Tiffey in banknotes.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
And she kissed me beforehand, in grateful acknowledgement of my hospitality.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Littimer touched his hat in acknowledgement of my good opinion, and I felt about eight years old.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
For this he had drawn a note-of-hand with great neatness, which he handed over to Traddles on the spot, a discharge of his debt in full (as between man and man), with many acknowledgements.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The remaining toasts were DOCTOR MELL; Mrs. MICAWBER (who gracefully bowed her acknowledgements from the side-door, where a galaxy of beauty was elevated on chairs, at once to witness and adorn the gratifying scene), Mrs. RIDGER BEGS (late Miss Micawber); Mrs. MELL; WILKINS MICAWBER, ESQUIRE, JUNIOR (who convulsed the assembly by humorously remarking that he found himself unable to return thanks in a speech, but would do so, with their permission, in a song); Mrs. MICAWBER'S FAMILY (well known, it is needless to remark, in the mother-country), &c. &c. &c.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
That those advances were secured by I.O.U.'s and other similar acknowledgements, known to the legal institutions of this country? And that I thus became immeshed in the web he had spun for my reception?
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Mr. Barkis rubbed his cheek with his cuff, and then looked at his cuff as if he expected to find some of the bloom upon it; but made no other acknowledgement of the compliment.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
In acknowledgement of this question, addressed to him with extraordinary curtness, Mr. Heep, uncomfortably clutching the blue bag he carried, replied that he was pretty well, he thanked my aunt, and hoped she was the same.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The conditions being now closed, I expressed my acknowledgements in the warmest manner; and, taking the hand, first of Miss Clarissa, and then of Miss Lavinia, pressed it, in each case, to my lips.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
