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Acknowledgment of torture is not accountability for it.
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Meaning of "acknowledgment" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT

acknowledgment  [əkˈnɒlɪdʒmənt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Acknowledgment is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ACKNOWLEDGMENT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Acknowledgment

Acknowledge or acknowledgment may refer to: ▪ In the creative arts and sciences, a statement of gratitude for assistance in producing a work ▪ Acknowledgment index, an experimental method for automatically analyzing acknowledgements in the scientific literature ▪ Acknowledgment, a declaration or avowal of one's own act, to give it legal validity ▪ Service of process, Acknowledgment of service ▪ Acknowledgement of receipt, a postal service Music ▪ "Acknowledgement", a song from John Coltrane's 1965 album, A Love Supreme Telecommunication ▪ Acknowledgement, a signal used to indicate acknowledgement, specifically: ▪ ACK, a flag used in the Transmission Control Protocol to acknowledge receipt of a packet ▪ Acknowledge character, an ASCII control character ▪ Negative-acknowledge character, an ASCII control character...

Definition of acknowledgment in the English dictionary

The first definition of acknowledgment in the dictionary is the act of acknowledging or state of being acknowledged. Other definition of acknowledgment is something done or given as an expression of thanks, as a reply to a message, etc. Acknowledgment is also an author's statement acknowledging his use of the works of other authors, usually printed at the front of a book.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ACKNOWLEDGMENT


acknowledgement
ækˈnɒlɪdʒmənt
arrangement
əˈreɪndʒmənt
co-management
kəʊˈmænɪdʒmənt
crisis-management
ˈkraɪsɪs ˈmænɪdʒmənt
discouragement
dɪsˈkʌrɪdʒmənt
disengagement
ˌdɪsɪnˈɡeɪdʒmənt
encouragement
ɪnˈkʌrɪdʒmənt
engagement
ɪnˈɡeɪdʒmənt
enlargement
ɪnˈlɑːdʒmənt
impingement
ɪmˈpɪndʒmənt
infringement
ɪnˈfrɪndʒmənt
judgement
ˈdʒʌdʒmənt
judgment
ˈdʒʌdʒmənt
management
ˈmænɪdʒmənt
micromanagement
ˈmaɪkrəʊˌmænɪdʒmənt
middle-management
ˈmɪdəl ˈmænɪdʒmənt
mismanagement
ˌmɪsˈmænɪdʒmənt
prejudgment
priːˈdʒʌdʒmənt
re-engagement
ˌriːɪnˈɡeɪdʒmənt
rearrangement
ˌriːəˈreɪndʒmənt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ACKNOWLEDGMENT

ack-ack
ack-ack fire
ack-ack guns
ack-emma
ackee
acker
acknow
acknowledge
acknowledgeable
acknowledgeably
acknowledged
acknowledgedly
acknowledgement
acknowledgements
acknowledger
acknowledgment slip
acknowledgments
acknowne
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aclinic

WORDS THAT END LIKE ACKNOWLEDGMENT

abridgment
advertisement
arrest of judgment
augment
Day of Judgment
defragment
error of judgment
figment
fragment
Last Judgment
line segment
lodgment
market segment
misjudgment
Particular Judgment
pigment
restriction fragment
segment
sit in judgment
the Last Judgment
value judgment

Synonyms and antonyms of acknowledgment in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ACKNOWLEDGMENT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «acknowledgment» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of acknowledgment

Translation of «acknowledgment» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Find out the translation of acknowledgment to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of acknowledgment from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «acknowledgment» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

确认
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

reconocimiento
570 millions of speakers

English

acknowledgment
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पावती
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الاعتراف
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

признание
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

reconhecimento
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

স্বীকৃতি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

reconnaissance
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pengiktirafan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Anerkennung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

承認
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

확인
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ngakoni
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự thừa nhận
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஒப்புகை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पावती
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

alındı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

riconoscimento
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

potwierdzenie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

визнання
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

confirmare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αναγνώριση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

erkenning
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kvittens
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

anerkjennelse
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of acknowledgment

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ACKNOWLEDGMENT»

The term «acknowledgment» is quite widely used and occupies the 23.463 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ACKNOWLEDGMENT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «acknowledgment» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «acknowledgment» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about acknowledgment

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10 QUOTES WITH «ACKNOWLEDGMENT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word acknowledgment.
1
John C. Calhoun
The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.
2
Carol P. Christ
The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power.
3
Sharon Gless
There's no praise or acknowledgment paid to women who raise the babies.
4
Guy Gavriel Kay
Fantasy is more than an escape from the truths of the world and the past: it is an open acknowledgment that those truths are complex and morally difficult. It offers a different route to creating something which will resonate with readers, in a way which resists the erasure of privacy and autonomy which pervades our modern world.
5
Thomas a Kempis
The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.
6
Chaka Khan
To me, this degree was an acknowledgment of my work in music.
7
Daniel Libeskind
Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future.
8
Lucy Liu
You respect all of these people that you know in the business as actors. And they sort of turn around and say, we really like your work. It's a nice acknowledgment.
9
Yousef Munayyer
Acknowledgment of torture is not accountability for it.
10
Soledad O'Brien
It is a sad day for our country when the moral foundation of our law and the acknowledgment of God has to be hidden from public view to appease a federal judge.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ACKNOWLEDGMENT»

Discover the use of acknowledgment in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to acknowledgment and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Forgotten Tribes: Unrecognized Indians and the Federal ...
First book-length overview of the Federal Acknowledgment Process enacted in 1978, the legal mechanism whereby native groups achieve official "recognition" of tribal status.
Mark Edwin Miller, 2004
2
Quest for Tribal Acknowledgment: California's Honey Lake Maidus
As a tribe, however, they do not exist. This is because they have not been acknowledged, a process by which the federal government officially recognizes Indian tribes.
Sara-Larus Tolley, 2006
3
Cash, Color, and Colonialism: The Politics of Tribal ...
Some tribes, however, have not been federally acknowledged, or, in more common language, “recognized.” In Cash, Color, and Colonialism, Reneé Ann Cramer offers a comprehensive analysis of the federal acknowledgment process, placing it ...
Renee Ann Cramer, 2005
4
30 Days to a Happy Employee: How a Simple Program of ...
Now, Dottie Gandy, a former regional director with the Franklin Covey Company, provides a simple, principle-based solution that will work to solve the problem in any business.
Dottie Gandy, 2001
5
The Life-giving Gift of Acknowledgment: A Philosophical and ...
What would life be like if no one acknowledged your existence?
Michael J. Hyde, 2006
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Grateful Leadership: Using the Power of Acknowledgment to ...
From a global leader in management training the definitive guide to improving employee engagement Retaining the best people is one of the most important and undervalued roles a leader performs.
Judith W. Umlas, 2012
7
Acknowledgment and Apology: Hearing Before the Committee on ...
Hearing Before the Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Ninth Congress, First Session on S.J. Res. 15, to Acknowledge a Long History of Official Depredations and Ill-conceived Policies by the U.S. Government ...
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Indian Affairs (1993- ), 2005
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International Encyclopedia of Comparative Law
A. VOlUNTARY ACKNOWlEDGmENT i. Principal Approaches 61. Acknowledgment by mother. - The Latin maxim mater semper certa est resolves the question of the child's relationship with his mother in most systems. Establishment of the ...
K. Zweigert, K. Drobnig, 1991
9
Bound by Recognition
as participants in the game of politics at all; that is, they are claims about what counts as acknowledgment in Tully's sense. But if being acknowledged turns out to mean being recognized—that is, being known and respected in virtue of who ...
Patchen Markell, 2009
10
Moral Understandings: A Feminist Study in Ethics
Acknowledgment refers to both the process through which, and the state in which , some matters of fact become “officially” (publicly, authoritatively) accepted as settled in some group,community,or society.Acknowledgment of grave wrongs ...
Margaret Urban Walker, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ACKNOWLEDGMENT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term acknowledgment is used in the context of the following news items.
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MLB must end morality sham and get A-Rod to the All-Star Game
It is about acknowledgment of worthy first-half performance but it encompasses a much larger scope than that. The All-Star Game, which is part ... «New York Post, Jul 15»
2
Michael Clarke has evolved into a captain Australia has finally …
... Clarke's bravest century, though battling his own body more than India's bowling – acknowledgment of his toughness was assured. «The Guardian, Jul 15»
3
Judges order district clerk not to go paperless, yet
Brown signed and returned that second acknowledgment of compliance on June 24 with a letter saying, “As requested, I will continue to ... «Your Houston News, Jul 15»
4
A decade after opening, Boston's UMass Club struggling
In an acknowledgment of the club's struggles, UMass plans to move the facility to what it considers a more desirable location, replace its ... «Boston Globe, Jul 15»
5
Chuck Carlson: At the top? Maybe we need some more lists
But for the good folks of Michigan, who have seen their share of tribulations over the years, it's a nice acknowledgment that, perhaps, the worst ... «Battle Creek Enquirer, Jul 15»
6
Nkandla: Has Mantashe adopted Mashatile's genie?
But it is also an acknowledgment of the fact that Zuma is on his way out and the ANC will be relieved of the Nkandla scandal once the president ... «Daily Maverick, Jul 15»
7
'Stop all the pit latrine deaths'
Veriava said they wanted an acknowledgment of the constitutional violations that had occurred and the egregious nature in which Michael died. «News24, Jul 15»
8
Gleneagles' promise to make poverty history has yet to be delivered
Even at Gleneagles, there was an acknowledgment that overseas aid was not a panacea. Leaders also pledged to work towards completing ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
9
Maharashtra plans to let employees avail PL after 90 working days
If that does not happen, the receipt of payment and acknowledgment of application will be considered as licence,” the official added. Similarly ... «Livemint, Jul 15»
10
Why is Bernie Sanders Catching Fire with Voters, and Hillary's Lead …
Of course, that media acknowledgment is grudgingly: CNN suggests Sanders' crowds consist of “curiosity seekers” rather than supporters, and ... «Ring of Fire, Jul 15»

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