Reaccepts

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To take back or accept again after rejecting
2. to allow something or someone to be received again
3. to admit once more into a group or context after withdrawal

Etymology: The verb "reaccepts" is simply the third-person singular present form of "reaccept", meaning to admit once more into a group or context after withdrawal. Its history is a plain compound: the prefix "re-", meaning "again", was attached to the verb "accept" in English. "Accept" traces back through Old French "accepter" to the Latin "acceptare", a frequentative of "accipere", which combined "ad-" ("to") with "capere" ("to take"). The literal sense is therefore "to take to oneself" or "to receive", and the Latin root that also gives "capture" and "capacious" is still visible in the word. English took "accept" from Old French in the Middle English period, and the sense of receiving or admitting something offered was present from the start. Because "reaccept" was formed in English from "re-" and "accept", it is a transparent coinage rather than a word with its own separate history, so its meaning follows directly from its parts: to take someone or something back in again after they have been shut out or sent away.

Synonyms: accepts again, receives again