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say it: ak-NAH-lij-muhnt
acknowledgment is a noun meaning "the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged". It is pronounced /ækˈnɑlɪdʒmənt/ — ak-NAH-lij-muhnt. It carries 3 recorded senses.
the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged
“the partners were delighted with the recognition of their work”
“she seems to avoid much in the way of recognition or acknowledgement of feminist work prior to her own”
a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage
“the student's essay failed to list several important citations”
“the acknowledgments are usually printed at the front of a book”
“the article includes mention of similar clinical cases”
a statement acknowledging something or someone
“she must have seen him but she gave no sign of acknowledgment”
“the preface contained an acknowledgment of those who had helped her”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for acknowledgment come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.