acknowledgment

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”
• “;”
• “;”

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”