accepter

[ ak-sep-ter ]

noun

1. a person or thing that accepts.

Word History and Origins

Origin of accepter¹

First recorded in 1575–85; accept + -er ¹

Example Sentences

Mr. Gourdet objected to Ms. Lovelace’s role, as he put it online last summer, “as judge, jury, executioner and apology accepter,” and to the fact that the accusers went unnamed, eliminating the possibility for making amends.

From New York Times

In fact, I’m such a climate-science accepter that I don’t even bother having hope for the ice caps.

From The Guardian

I’m still kind of a reluctant accepter of accolades.”

From Washington Post

The first is that Sun Yat-sen, born a Chinese of the nineteenth century, had the intellectual orientation of a member of the world-society, and an accepter of the Confucian ideology.

From Project Gutenberg

An Englishman took the bill, and after a careful examination said he neither knew the drawer, the accepter, nor the backer.

From Project Gutenberg