Thesaurus: acknowledgment

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1. n. The act of acknowledging; admission; avowal; owning; confession.
2. n. The act of owning or recognized in a particular character or relationship; recognition as regards the existence, authority, truth, or genuineness.
3. n. The owning of a benefit received; courteous recognition; expression of thanks.
4. n. Something given or done in return for a favor, message, etc.
5. n. A declaration or avowal of one's own act, to give it legal validity; as, the acknowledgment of a deed before a proper officer. Also, the certificate of the officer attesting such declaration.
6. n. the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged
7. n. a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage
8. n. a statement acknowledging something or someone
9. 1. The act of acknowledging; admission; avowal; owning; confession. "An acknowledgment of fault." Froude. 2. The act of owning or recognized in a particular character or relationship; recognition as regards the existence, authority, truth, or genuineness. Immediately upon the acknowledgment of the Christian faith, the eunuch was baptized by Philip. Hooker. 3. The owning of a benefit received; courteous recognition; expression of thanks. Shak. 4. Something given or done in return for a favor, message, etc. Smollett. 5. A declaration or avowal of one's own act, to give it legal validity; as, the acknowledgment of a deed before a proper officer. Also, the certificate of the officer attesting such declaration. Acknowledgment money, in some parts of England, a sum paid by copyhold tenants, on the death of their landlords, as an acknowledgment of their new lords. Cowell. Syn. -- Confession; concession; recognition; admission; avowal; recognizance.
10. n:100 n. a statement acknowledging something or someone