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broader acceptance

broader acceptance

1 3.9
More approval or tolerance from many people in a group
  • noun
translation icon : mayor aceptación
  • PZ simply recognizes that a good way to gain broad acceptance for a reasonable argument is to repeatedly bring it to people's attention.
  • gain broader acceptance

Examples

  • Without that evidence, we doubt that the newer measures, even if they are as good as the WISC-R and similar instruments, will gain broad acceptance by practitioners, nor impede the progress of efforts to change assessment practices toward greater use of direct measures of skills.

    Academic text (1990)
  • The Carnegie report has found broad acceptance in higher education.

    Academic text (1997)
  • But the ideas still need much broader acceptance to be more effective.

    Academic text (2005)
  • But at the end of the war, you really see a much broader acceptance of immigrants.

    Blog text (7)
  • However, after the common school achieved broad acceptance, the Church dropped its opposition to public schooling.

    Academic text (1998)
  • While the data depict broad acceptance of political freedom in Russia and Georgia, economic freedom does not receive similar support.

    Academic text (1997)
  • Because green products frequently offer inherent health, safety, and convenience benefits, marketers should promote these benefits to encourage broader acceptance.

    Academic text (2003)
  • They seem to share the current embrace of isolationism that appears to be gaining broader acceptance among the American public.

    Academic text (1994)
  • It is important to understand what political forces have prevented broader acceptance of market-based environmental regulation over the years because these forces are likely to resist further use of such approaches beyond the new Clean Air Act Amendments.

    Academic text (1992)
  • The program received broader acceptance in schools after demonstrating its effectiveness.

Synonyms

acceptance
vsbroader acceptance
101 2.9

Willingness to be friendly to people and ideas that are different

is stronger approval or tolerance across a group or society
mainstreaming
vsbroader acceptance
1 4.1

The process of making a new idea or product accepted and used by most people

is the state of wider approval or tolerance within a group

How Accepting

broader acceptance
1 3.9
acceptance
104 2.7
tolerance
160 3.7
intolerance
50 4.6
rejection
180 3.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

broad + acceptance

The meaning is directly compositional: 'broader' (more wide/greater in scope) combined with 'acceptance' (approval) yields 'greater approval or tolerance.' This is a standard adjective-comparative + noun construction that a B1 learner who knows the constituents can infer, so it is transparent.

Etymology

Broader acceptance creates a simple picture: imagine a door or circle getting wider so more people can come in. The word broader means wider and acceptance means being welcomed, so the image helps show it means 'greater approval or tolerance' in a group or society.