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Phrase(s): accept someone as something
to consent to receive or consider someone as a particular type of person or a person who can serve a particular role. • Sally finally accepted herself as the only possible peacemaker in the dispute., Phrase(s): accept something as something
1. to agree that something will serve in payment of a debt or in return for something. • This receipt shows that we have accepted your money as payment on your debt. • This money has been accepted as reimbursement for the expenditure. 2. to resign [oneself] to something that cannot be changed. • I must accept what you say as the final decision.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs