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noun

acknowledgement

CEFR B1

the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged

In a sentence

Six example sentences with acknowledgement, each labelled with its topic.

  • The plaque gives acknowledgement to the two technicians who built the telescope mount, names left off the original paper.

    Science

  • After forty years of session work she finally received acknowledgement, her name printed on the reissue sleeve.

    Music

  • The award was the first public acknowledgement of a team that had shipped quietly for six years.

    Business

  • The retrospective was the acknowledgement she had waited forty years for, filling three rooms of the museum that once rejected her.

    Art

  • Retiring his number was the club's acknowledgement of a player who had never made an all-star team but anchored ten winning seasons.

    Basketball

  • Public acknowledgement of the codebreakers came only in the 1970s, thirty years after their work shortened the war.

    History

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