Accuser réception
Meaning: To acknowledge that something has been received.
Language: French
Literally: To accuse receipt
Category: Daily Life
Origin: Accuser here carries its older Latin sense from accusare, to make known or bring to notice, not to blame. The same buried sense survives in accuser le coup, to visibly show the effect of a blow.
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