acknowledgment

acknowledgment
noun
1. the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged
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the partners were delighted with the recognition of their work

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she seems to avoid much in the way of recognition or acknowledgement of feminist work prior to her own

• Derivationally related forms: ↑acknowledge
• Hypernyms: ↑acceptance
• Attrubites: ↑acknowledged, ↑unacknowledged
2. a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage
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the student's essay failed to list several important citations

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the acknowledgments are usually printed at the front of a book

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the article includes mention of similar clinical cases

• Syn: ↑citation, ↑cite, ↑credit, ↑reference, ↑mention, ↑quotation
• Derivationally related forms: ↑mention (for: ↑mention), ↑reference (for: ↑reference), ↑credit (for: ↑credit), ↑acknowledge, ↑cite (for: ↑citation)
• Hypernyms: ↑note, ↑annotation, ↑notation
• Hyponyms: ↑photo credit, ↑cross-reference, ↑cross-index
3. a statement acknowledging something or someone
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she must have seen him but she gave no sign of acknowledgment

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the preface contained an acknowledgment of those who had helped her

• Syn: ↑acknowledgement
• Derivationally related forms: ↑acknowledge
• Hypernyms: ↑message, ↑content, ↑subject matter, ↑substance
• Hyponyms:

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