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accede

verb

1 the authorities did not accede to the strikers' demands:

agree to, consent to, accept, assent to, acquiesce in, endorse, comply with, go along with, concur with, allow, recognize, grant, surrender to, yield to, give in to, give way to, defer to;

relent, back down.

▷antonyms refuse, deny.

2 Elizabeth I acceded to the throne in 1558:

succeed to, assume, attain, come to, come into, inherit, take over, be elevated to.

▷antonyms abdicate, renounce.

3 Albania acceded to the IMF in 1990:

join, become a member of, become (a) party to, sign up to, enrol in.

▷antonyms leave, secede.

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