Tacit+consent

  • 11consent — A central concern of liberal political theory is to determine the place of consent in the legitimation of social and political practices. Coercion, exploitation, fraud, deception, and perhaps more general categories of treating people as means,… …

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  • 12tacit — adjective Etymology: Middle French or Latin; Middle French tacite, from Latin tacitus silent, from past participle of tacēre to be silent; akin to Old High German dagēn to be silent Date: 1576 1. expressed or carried on without words or speech <&#8230; …

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  • 13tacit — /ˈtæsət / (say tasuht) adjective 1. silent; saying nothing. 2. not openly expressed, but implied; understood or inferred: *Their enmity, though tacit, had long been sensed mutually. –thea astley, 1974. 3. unspoken: tacit consent. {Latin tacitus,&#8230; …

  • 14tacit — adj. understood or implied without being stated (tacit consent). Derivatives: tacitly adv. Etymology: L tacitus silent f. tacere be silent …

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  • 15consent — [kən sent′] vi. [ME consenten &LT; OFr consentir &LT; L consentire &LT; com , with + sentire, to feel: see SENSE] 1. a) to agree (to do something) b) to willingly engage in a sexual act: often in the phrase consenting adult c) to give permission …

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  • 16tacit — /taesat/ Existing, inferred, or understood without being openly expressed or stated; implied by silence or silent acquiescence, as a tacit agreement or a tacit understanding. State v. Chadwick, 150 Or. 645, 47 P.2d 232, 234. Done or made in&#8230; …

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  • 17consent — I n. 1) to give one s consent to 2) to refuse, withhold one s consent 3) common; general; informed; mutual; parental; tacit; unanimous consent 4) by consent (by mutual consent) 5) (misc.) the age of consent II v. 1) (D; intr.) to consent to (to&#8230; …

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  • 18tacit — (knowledge, consent, communication) A state of a person or a relation between people that is not expressed, or one of which the subjects may even be unaware, but which can be inferred from their other capacities and activities. An agent able to&#8230; …

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  • 19consent — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Voluntary compliance Nouns consent, assent, acquiescence; approval, approbation; compliance, agreement, concession; yielding, accession, allowance, acceptance; ratification, confirmation; permit,&#8230; …

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  • 20tacit — adj. Tacit is used with these nouns: ↑acceptance, ↑acknowledgement, ↑admission, ↑agreement, ↑approval, ↑assumption, ↑consensus, ↑consent, ↑encouragement, ↑endorsement, ↑permission …

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