 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
acknowledgment
noun
1: the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged;
"the partners were delighted with the recognition of
their work"; "she seems to avoid much in the way of
recognition or acknowledgement of feminist work prior to
her own" [syn: {recognition}, {acknowledgement}]
2: a short note recognizing a source of information or of a
quoted passage; "the student's essay failed to list
several important citations"; "the acknowledgments are
usually printed at the front of a book"; "the article
includes mention of similar clinical cases" [syn: {citation},
{credit}, {reference}, {mention}, {quotation}]
3: a statement acknowledging something or someone; "she must
have seen him but she gave no sign of acknowledgment";
"the preface contained an acknowledgment of those who had
helped her" [syn: {acknowledgement}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Acknowledgment \Ac*knowl"edg*ment\, Acknowledgement
\Ac*knowl"edge*ment\ ([a^]k*n[o^]l"[e^]j*ment), noun
1. The act of acknowledging; admission; avowal; owning;
confession. ''An acknowledgment of fault.'' --Froude.
2. The act of owning or recognizing in a particular character
or relationship; recognition as regards the existence,
authority, truth, or genuineness; a statement
acknowledging something or someone.
[1913 Webster +WordNet 1.5]
Immediately upon the acknowledgment of the Christian
faith, the eunuch was baptized by Philip. --Hooker.
3. The owning of a benefit received; courteous recognition;
the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged;
an expression of thanks. --Shak.
Syn: recognition
[1913 Webster +WordNet 1.5]
4. Something given or done in return for a favor, message,
etc. --Smollett.
5. A declaration or avowal of one's own act, to give it legal
validity; as, the acknowledgment of a deed before a proper
officer. Also, the certificate of the officer attesting
such declaration.
{Acknowledgment money}, in some parts of England, a sum paid
by copyhold tenants, on the death of their landlords, as
an acknowledgment of their new lords. --Cowell.
Syn: Confession; concession; recognition; admission; avowal;
recognizance.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
152 Moby Thesaurus words for "acknowledgment":
abject apology, acceptance, acknowledgments, acquittance,
admission, allowance, answer, answering, antiphon, apology,
appreciation, avowal, back, back answer, back matter, back talk,
backchat, bastard title, benediction, bibliography, billet, blurb,
boost, breast-beating, buildup, business letter, by-line,
canceled check, catch line, catchword, chit, citation, cognizance,
colophon, comeback, commendation, communication, concession,
confession, contents, contents page, contrition, copyright page,
credit, credit line, crediting, declaration, dedication, discharge,
dispatch, due, echo, endleaf, endpaper, endsheet, epistle, errata,
evasive reply, excuse, favor, flyleaf, folio, fore edge, foreword,
front matter, good word, grace, half-title page, head,
honorable mention, hymn, hype, imprint, index, inscription,
introduction, leaf, letter, line, makeup, mea culpa, message,
missive, note, owning, owning up, paean, page, penitence, plug,
praise, prayer of thanks, preface, preliminaries, profession,
promotion, puff, quittance, reaction, ready reply, receipt,
receipt in full, recognition, recto, reference, regrets, rejoinder,
release, repartee, replication, reply, repost, rescript,
rescription, respondence, response, responsion, responsory, retort,
return, reverberation, reverso, right, riposte, rite of confession,
running title, short answer, shrift, signature, snappy comeback,
subtitle, table of contents, tail, text, thank offering, thank-you,
thanks, thanksgiving, title, title page, trademark, tribute,
trim size, type page, unbosoming, verso, voucher, warrant,
what is owing, witty reply, witty retort, yes-and-no answer
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