{"id":364481,"date":"2013-01-28T16:34:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.findlaw-admin.com\/ability-law\/dictionary\/definition\/recognize.html"},"modified":"2013-01-28T16:34:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:34:14","slug":"recognize","status":"publish","type":"dictionary","link":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/definition\/recognize.html","title":{"rendered":"Recognize"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"fl-index-heading\">\n    <p>term:<\/p>\n    <h1 class=\"fl-h1 fl-mb20\"><\/h1>\n\n    <dl class=\"fl-index-heading-description-list\">\n            <dt class=\"fl-mb10\"><p class=\"fl-text-bold\">vt<\/p><\/dt>\n        <dd><p><b>-nized<\/b><br \/>  <b>-niz&#183;ing<\/b><br \/>  <b>1<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> to acknowledge formally: as <br \/>  <b>a<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> to admit as being of a particular status &#91; a precedent&#93; &#91; a union&#93; <br \/>  <i>;specif<\/i><br \/>  <b>:<\/b> to acknowledge (as a right, cause of action, or defense) as valid <br \/>  <b>b<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> to admit as being one entitled to be heard <br \/>  <b>:<\/b> give the floor to <br \/>  <b>c<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> to acknowledge the de facto existence or the independence of &#91;refused to the new government&#93; <br \/>  <b>2<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> to account for as real, received, or incurred and treat and record appropriately <br \/>  <i>;specif<\/i><br \/>  <b>:<\/b> to account for (a gain, loss, expense, or income) on current accounting or tax records &#91;<i>recognized<\/i> the gain when she included it as income on her tax return&#93; compare <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/definition\/realize.html\">realize<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n    <div class=\"fl-index-heading-source\">Source: Merriam-Webster&#8217;s Dictionary of Law \u00a91996. Merriam-Webster, Incorporated. Published under license with Merriam-Webster, Incorporated.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is &#8216;Recognize&#8217;? Learn more about legal terms and the law at FindLaw.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":358119,"menu_order":0,"template":"app\/Http\/Controllers\/Templates\/DictionaryArticleController.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","_autodraft_ids":[],"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"_sb_is_suggestion_mode":false,"_sb_show_suggestion_boards":false,"_sb_show_comment_boards":false,"_sb_suggestion_history":"","_sb_update_block_changes":"","_is_real_time_mode":false,"_realtime_collaborators":"","cf_checklist_status":[]},"dictionary_tags":[],"class_list":["post-364481","dictionary","type-dictionary","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary\/364481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/dictionary"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary\/358119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"dictionary_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary_tags?post=364481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}