tacit
11tacit — tacitly, adv. tacitness, n. /tas it/, adj. 1. understood without being openly expressed; implied: tacit approval. 2. silent; saying nothing: a tacit partner. 3. unvoiced or unspoken: a tacit prayer. [1595 1605; < L tacitus silent, ptp. of tacere… …
12tacit — [[t]tæ̱sɪt[/t]] ADJ: usu ADJ n If you refer to someone s tacit agreement or approval, you mean they are agreeing to something or approving it without actually saying so, often because they are unwilling to admit to doing so. The question was a… …
13tacit — tac•it [[t]ˈtæs ɪt[/t]] adj. 1) understood without being openly expressed; implied: tacit approval[/ex] 2) silent; saying nothing: a tacit partner[/ex] 3) unvoiced or unspoken: a tacit prayer[/ex] • Etymology: 1595–1605; < L tacitus silent,… …
14tacit — adjective /ˈtæsɪt/ a) Done or made in silence; implied, but not expressed; silent; as, tacit consent is consent by silence, or by not interposing an objection. He does this by way of a tacit reference to Homer b) Not derived from formal… …
15tacit — (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… …
16tacit — ta|cit [ˈtæsıt] adj [Date: 1600 1700; : French; Origin: tacite, from Latin tacitus, from tacere to be silent ] tacit agreement, approval, support etc is given without anything actually being said ▪ a tacit agreement between the three big… …
17tacit — adjective tacit agreement, support etc is accepted or understood without actually being officially agreed: a tacit agreement between the three big companies that no one would cut their prices tacitly adverb tacitness noun (U) …
18tacit — /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,… …
19tacit — adj. Tacit is used with these nouns: ↑acceptance, ↑acknowledgement, ↑admission, ↑agreement, ↑approval, ↑assumption, ↑consensus, ↑consent, ↑encouragement, ↑endorsement, ↑permission …
20tacit — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. unspoken, unexpressed; silent, mute; implied, understood. See silence, taciturnity. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. implicit, assumed, unspoken; see implied , understood 2 . III (Roget s 3… …
