0 present participle of acknowledge
1 to accept, admit, or recognize something, or the truth or existence of something:
[ + -ing verb ] She acknowledged having been at fault.
[ + that ] She acknowledged that she had been at fault.
Historians generally acknowledge her as a genius in her field.
[ + obj + to infinitive ] She is usually acknowledged to be one of our best artists.
They refused to acknowledge (= to recognize officially) the new government.
He didn't even acknowledge my presence (= show that he had seen me).
The government won't even acknowledge the existence of the problem.
The government has acknowledged that homelessness is a problem but it has failed to grasp the scale of the problem.
It is widely acknowledged that the welfare system is under-resourced.
I regarded her failure to acknowledge my greeting as a slight.
Working within the principles of organic agriculture and thus acknowledging the values of the system is also an important context for research.
This would mean acknowledging the things we don't know and systematising them in the sense of seeing how they relate, what they add up to.
State courts continued to recognize the unique position of the marital contract into the twentieth century by acknowledging its public purposes.
