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acceptance

noun

B1CEFR level
25/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister

An unqualified agreement to all the terms of an offer, communicated to the offeror, which concludes the contract.

Acceptance was effective when the buyer's confirmation reached our client's inbox, not when it was typed.

Similar: assent

Topic: Contracts in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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