adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an accepted convention
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Saying 'thank you' and 'please' is an accepted convention.
an accepted/received notion (= an idea that most people believe )
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These women challenged accepted notions of female roles in society.
generally regarded/accepted/known etc
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The plants are generally regarded as weeds.
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a generally accepted view
treated/recognized/accepted etc as such
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Birth is a natural process, and should be treated as such.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
generally
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Nation usually speaks louder than ideology; as a result, the generally accepted notions of government and opposition break down.
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Some difficulties arise, however, from the generally accepted distinction.
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It is not therefore possible at present for the public finance economist to appeal to a generally accepted body of theory.
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The generally accepted surveillance policy in most centres today is regular colonoscopy for patients with longstanding extensive colitis.
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In the field of criminal investigation there are as yet no advanced and generally accepted standards of professional competence.
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At Low Birk Hatt we didn't have Christmases in the generally accepted sense.
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The definition of power Immediately we have difficulties since there seems to be no generally accepted agreement on the meaning of power.
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Both writers and readers are affected by generally accepted ideas, without necessarily having given them independent thought.
universally
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Currently there are no universally accepted standards for environmental auditors to work toward, although they are beginning to be developed.
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Here was a period when a universally accepted order could be discovered with a resulting social and political stability.
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They relate to universally accepted behaviour patterns - salutations, manners, dress, etc.
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This was not yet a universally accepted point of view.
widely
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Semantic relationships show aspects of the genus-species relationships and are expected to reflect assumed and widely accepted subject relationships.
■ NOUN
part
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By 1905 learning to design station grounds had become an accepted part of landscape architectural education.
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White-collar crime appeared to be a normal and accepted part of business practice, being both very costly and highly organised.
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For the vast majority of people however, drinking can form an accepted part of a balanced and healthy lifestyle.
practice
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Besides, a refusal would seem as if she placed too much importance on an accepted practice .
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For example, it may become tacitly accepted practice in a market exactly to match the price changes of the largest firm.
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Bigamy, for example, is a serious crime in Britain yet it is normal and accepted practice in other countries.
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To depart substantially from them invites question unless it can be demonstrated that such departure conforms to accepted practice by rational analysis.
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It was accepted practice for employers to admit women to schemes at older ages than men - 30 was not uncommon.
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Everything about Shanti's adoption was against accepted practice .
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Where there is only one accepted practice , then following this practice will not amount to negligence.
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Which - the accepted practice with trump-cards, or the feelings - is primary?
principle
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The accepted principle was that you should not define your cause before starting the revolution.
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This has led to a departure from the generally accepted principle of state funding for educational projects.
sense
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The first point is that they were largely developmental rather than research in the accepted sense .
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At Low Birk Hatt we didn't have Christmases in the generally accepted sense .
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We didn't fish in the accepted sense , which I've always thought was a ghoulish thing to do anyway.
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The remedies, therefore, do not have side-effects in the accepted sense of the word.
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Although some modern dancers do without music in the accepted sense of that term, they rarely do without rhythmic phrasing.
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It is debatable whether he ever envisaged trailer operation in its accepted sense , with trailers being detached at off-peak times.
standard
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In the field of criminal investigation there are as yet no advanced and generally accepted standards of professional competence.
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The accepted standards of political morality differed from our own; evidence is hard to come by and difficult to interpret.
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Currently there are no universally accepted standards for environmental auditors to work toward, although they are beginning to be developed.
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Thus the scientific model of verification has an inbuilt mechanism for the evolution and promotion of generally accepted standards .
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They are able to monitor their progress closely and to relate effort and performance to accepted standards .
view
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The accepted view holds its own.
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The generally accepted view is that the people of Lewis opposed Lord Leverhulme's schemes.
way
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These are the two accepted ways of playing the rising ball.
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How willing were abolitionists to challenge both the accepted ways of acting publicly and by whom the action should be undertaken?
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Public transport was an accepted way of travelling.
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So jail is not new to him, in those days it was an accepted way of life.
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Gratuities formed part of the old, traditional and accepted way of conducting business: set charges were the innovation.
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Culture defines accepted ways of behaving for members of a particular society.
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They didn't believe in what was then the accepted way of drilling things into you.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A spokesman claimed, "Our methods are far more advanced and more accepted than ICI's."
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Einstein, therefore, set to work to try to demolish the accepted version of quantum mechanics.
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It may also be necessary to adjust accepted labour constants to the actual circumstances of the job.
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Since the Congress of Vienna, a general diplomatic system had provided the accepted channels of international relations.
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The Masai never accepted football as the moral equivalent of war.
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They had to be more specific about the traditionally accepted forms of behaviour, customs, occupations and particular national characteristics.
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This hypothesis not only flouts accepted biological principles but is unnecessary.
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What are the processes by which the role of women within the trade unions has emerged as an accepted research topic?
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Yet Einstein never accepted quantum mechanics because of its element of chance and uncertainty.