accede

CEFRC2

/əkˈsiːd/

verb

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01
verb
To agree to a request, demand, or proposal.
02
verb
Extra detail
To become a party to an agreement or a treaty [with to].

Examples

The company will accede to the request.
The manager decided to accede to the demands of the employees.

At a glance

Sits at C2 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 5

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/əˈsiːd/

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verb

Extra meanings

To come to an office, state or dignity; to attain, assume (a position) [with to].
To agree or assent [with to ‘a proposal, a request’]; to give way.
To approach; to arrive, to come forward.

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She will accede to the throne.
the house of Hanover acceded to the English throne
to accede to a request

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It was added that if he acceded to these proposals, his fortresses and sea-ports should be garrisoned by French and Spanish troops to protect him from England’s vengeance, but that if he refused—and the answer was to be given within four days—he must take the consequences of such a line of policy.
c. 1876, E. H. Nolan, The History of England, volume III
But in 1874 the editors of Scribner’s Monthly requested me to publish a popular account of the Colorado exploration in that journal. To this I acceded and prepared four short articles, which were elaborately illustrated from photographs in my possession.
1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, “Preface”, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page iii
Referring to the "hero of the day," No. 92220, Mr. Hanks acceded that she was not of the Great Western breed, but they had done their best to make up for that by "dollying her up in good old Western colours and conferring upon her the finest honour we can—the halo or crown of Swindon, the copper top to her chimney."
1960 May 26, “Evening Star”, in Railway Magazine, page 307, referring to a new steam locomotive, the last built for British Railways
Some of the countries of Eastern Europe had already acceded to all the privatization and austerity measures drawn up by imperialist bankers. The Socialist Federation of Yugoslavia was the last of the Eastern European workers' states trying to hold on to what was left of its planned, socialized framework of production and its collective ownership.
2007 November 18, Leslie Feinberg, “'Big lie' and breakup of Yugoslavia”, in Workers World
The Department of War has stated they will only contract with AI companies who accede to “any lawful use” and remove safeguards in the cases mentioned above. […] Regardless, these threats do not change our position: we cannot in good conscience accede to their request.
2026 February 26, Dario Amodei, “Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War”, in Anthropic

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Origin

verb

From Middle English acceden, from Latin accēdō (“approach, accede”), formed from ad (“to, toward, at”) + cēdō (“move, yield”) (English cede). Compare French accéder. Unrelated to ascend, aside from the common ad prefix.

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After much negotiation, the reluctant manager finally decided to blank to the demands.