acceptance vs ban

acceptance

noun
  • An assent and engagement by the person on whom a bill of exchange is drawn, to pay it when due according to the terms of the acceptance; the bill of exchange itself when accepted. 

  • The state of being accepted. 

  • A list of horses accepted as starters in a race. 

  • Synonym of etendue. 

  • The usual or accepted meaning of a word or expression. 

  • The act of accepting; the receiving of something offered, with acquiescence, approbation, or satisfaction; especially, favourable reception; approval. 

  • An agreeing to the action, proposals, or terms of another by some act which results in the conclusion of a legally binding contract; the reception or taking of a thing bought as that for which it was bought, or as that agreed to be delivered, or the taking of possession of a thing as owner. 

  • Belief in something; agreement, assent. 

  • The act of an authorized representative of the government by which the government assents to ownership of existing and identified supplies, or approves specific services rendered, as partial or complete performance of a contract. 

  • An instance of that act. 

ban

verb
  • To prohibit; to interdict; to proscribe; to forbid or block from participation. 

  • To curse; to utter curses or maledictions. 

  • To curse; to execrate. 

  • To anathematize; to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; to place under a ban. 

noun
  • A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Moldovan leu. 

  • A unit measuring information or entropy based on base-ten logarithms, rather than the base-two logarithms that define the bit. 

  • A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Romanian leu. 

  • The gathering of the (French) king's vassals for war; the whole body of vassals so assembled, or liable to be summoned; originally, the same as arrière-ban: in the 16th c., French usage created a distinction between ban and arrière-ban, for which see the latter word. 

  • Prohibition. 

  • A public proclamation or edict; a summons by public proclamation. Chiefly, in early use, a summons to arms. 

  • A title used in several states in central and south-eastern Europe between the 7th century and the 20th century. 

  • A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban, such as a mulct paid to a bishop by one guilty of sacrilege or other crimes. 

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