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What does acquiescence mean?

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  1. A silent or passive assent or submission, or a submission with apparent content; - distinguished from avowed consent on the one hand, and on the other, from opposition or open discontent; quiet satisfaction.
  2. (law) Submission to an injury by the party injured, or tacit concurrence in the action of another.
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In the latter situation, the acquiescence could not constitute permission and was only consistent with user as of right.
Describe her as a basket case, and she nods her acquiescence.
Agamemnon's acquiescence in this slaughter involves much indecision, even in his cuckolded brother Menelaus.
Her mental maturity takes her from blind submission to condescending acquiescence.
In colonial and antebellum America, slaves could buy their freedom, but only with the acquiescence of their masters.
In cases of this type, the customer's failure to object to the respective entry is considered acquiescence in the charge so made.

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