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admit | American Dictionary

admit
verb
us/ədˈmɪt, æd-/-tt-

admitverb (ACCEPT)

to recognize or accept something as true:
[ T ]He admitted his guilt.
[ + (that) clause ]She admitted (that) she had made a mistake.

admitverb (ALLOW IN)

[ T ]
to allow someone or something to enter:
Each ticket admits one member and a guest.

admittance

noun[ U ]us/ədˈmɪt·əns, æd-/
He was refused admittance to the club.

admit | Business English

admit
verb
uk /ədˈmɪt/us-tt-
[ I or T ]
to say that you have done something dishonest or have not succeeded in doing something:
"We need to do more to attract the younger end of the market," the Chairman admitted.
It can be difficult to admit mistakes in front of colleagues who may be competitors for the next promotion.
admit to sthThree suspects admitted to the fraud scheme during a series of interviews with federal agents.
admit (that)British Airways admitted last week that the credit market downturn was affecting business travel.
admit doing sthIn court, she admitted receiving almost $1 million as "consulting fees".
admit guilt/failure/defeatThe company received a discount on its fine because it admitted its guilt.
admit a charge/offence/allegationSeveral firms have been forced to admit charges of paying illegal bonuses to employees.
 admit liability (for sth)
LAW
to admit that you are legally responsible for something that has harmed someone:
As part of the agreement, the chairman and his affiliates do not admit any liability or wrongdoing.
to officially give permission for a person, company, or country to join a large organization:
admit sb to sthOver the next five years, several new countries will be admitted to the EU.
to officially give permission for someone to attend a meeting or other event:
admit sb to sthNewspaper reporters will not be admitted to the hearing.
 admit evidence
LAW
if a court of law admits evidence or admits something as evidence, it allows something to be used to decide whether someone is guilty of a crime:
Prosecutors asked the court to admit the recordings as evidence.

Examples of admit

admit
Seventy-eight per cent admitted that they would be more empathetic towards patients, with greater sensitivity to their psychological distress, in the future.
This case admits a specially simple normal form in which the low degree terms of the normal form can be replaced by coordinate functions.
Thus, by admitting these more general continuation expressions we get a considerable simplification of the equational presentation of -calculus.
A chapter on hybrid peas seems superfluous when, as the author admits, hybrid varieties are extremely unlikely!
The functor syntax admits functors of many variables, and functor composition.
A 56-year-old man was admitted to a psychiatric clinic for treatment of alcoholism known for the last 25 years.
Management options will be discussed again after cardiac catheterisation, and then when the child is admitted for surgery.
Seventeen of the 99 patients were admitted with a feeding tube in place and half received a new feeding tube.
The transplant team directs the care of its patients regardless of the unit to which they are admitted.
Two sequences are equivalent if and only if they admit contractions which have a common dilation.
These differences contributed to the formation of a great ideological divide that admitted no compromise, and that soon generated a spiral of political violence.
Rather, we should admit that the ties are somewhat different in different contexts.
For stationary propagation, these equations admit solitontype localized solutions.
The community may have reached more than 10,000 men at its height; as a rule, no women were admitted.
The remainder did not admit to receiving help from anyone.
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