tacit admission

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• tacit — tac·it / ta sət/ adj 1: implied (as by an act or by silence) rather than express a tacit admission 2 in the civil law of Louisiana: arising by operation of law a tacit mortgage tac·it·ly adv Merriam Web …   Law dictionary

• tacit — 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 …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• tacit — [[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… …   English dictionary

• admission — noun 1 entrance ADJECTIVE ▪ free, half price ▪ emergency ▪ emergency admissions to hospital ▪ cinema (BrE), theatre/theater …   Collocations dictionary

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

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• tac´it|ness — tac|it «TAS iht», adjective. 1. implied or understood without being openly expressed: »His eating the food was a tacit admission that he liked it. SYNONYM(S): implicit. 2. saying nothing; still; silent: »Edward Strachey was…a man rather tacit… …   Useful english dictionary

• tac´it|ly — tac|it «TAS iht», adjective. 1. implied or understood without being openly expressed: »His eating the food was a tacit admission that he liked it. SYNONYM(S): implicit. 2. saying nothing; still; silent: »Edward Strachey was…a man rather tacit… …   Useful english dictionary

• tac|it — «TAS iht», adjective. 1. implied or understood without being openly expressed: »His eating the food was a tacit admission that he liked it. SYNONYM(S): implicit. 2. saying nothing; still; silent: »Edward Strachey was…a man rather tacit than… …   Useful english dictionary

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