Usually means: Acknowledges existence or validity formally.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. recognizes: Merriam-Webster
  2. recognizes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. recognizes: Vocabulary.com
  4. Recognizes, recognizes: Wordnik
  5. recognizes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. recognizes: Wiktionary
  7. recognizes: Dictionary.com
  8. recognizes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. recognizes: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. recognizes: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. recognizes: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. recognizes: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (recognize)

verb:  (transitive) To match (something or someone which one currently perceives) to a memory of some previous encounter with the same person or thing.
verb:  (transitive) To acknowledge the existence or legality of; to treat as valid or worthy of consideration.
verb:  (transitive, or with clause) To acknowledge or consider (as being a certain thing or having a certain quality or property).
verb:  (transitive) To realize or discover the nature of something; apprehend quality in.
verb:  (transitive) To show formal appreciation of, as with an award, commendation etc.
verb:  (obsolete) To review; to examine again.
verb:  (obsolete) To reconnoiter.
verb:  (immunology) To have the property to bind to specific antigens.
verb:  to cognize again
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