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Acceptor

noun

(chemistry) in the formation of a coordinate bond it is the compound to which electrons are donated.

The person (or institution) who accepts a check or draft and becomes responsible for paying the party named in the draft when it matures.

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acceptor RNA

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... executors' and administrators' sales, at quarterly and protracted religious meetings, at barbecues of every dimension, on hunting excursions and fishing frolics, at social parties in all neighborhoods. It got to be said of Mr. Pike that a freer acceptor of hospitable invitations, or a better appreciator of hospitable intentions, was not and needed not to be found possibly in the whole state. Nor was this admirable deportment confined to the county in which he held so high ...

— The Best American Humorous Short Stories • Various

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