accede to
Accede means to consent to something, or to take over a position or an office. Accede is followed by the preposition to.
- The mayor acknowledged that she had little choice but to accede to the creation of a 44-member council.
- Yugoslavia was called upon to accede to the Chemical Weapons Convention.
- Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor acceded to the throne in 1952.
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