acquiescence
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8.5
- noun
- /ˌakwēˈesəns/
- Her acquiescence to the new policy surprised her colleagues.
- reluctant acquiescence
- military acquiescence
- political acquiescence
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Watch on YouTubeTyrannies happen because of the population's acquiescence to tyranny.
- Tyrannies happen because of the population's acquiescence to tyranny.
- It's the same is because the many give their power to the few in the form of acquiescence.
- I think the one I have trouble balancing the most is people who respond to acquiescence versus people to it who respond to more aggressive personalities.
Examples
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You need my permission, my help, my acquiescence, or you don't have a story.
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" Valerie waits, not eagerly but with the acquiescence she knows he expects.
Fiction book (1996) -
We cannot, we will not leave a legacy of acquiescence!
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Are their decisions binding, or is acquiescence in them merely voluntary?
Academic text (1993) -
As Chateaubriand said, the state rests upon the acquiescence of the poor.
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Tyrannies happen because of the population's acquiescence to tyranny.
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International poverty and inequality thus support and reinforce acquiescence to substandard housing and employment conditions.
Academic text (2017) -
The reluctant acquiescence of employers might reflect anxiety to retain employees with 'mid-level skills':
Academic text (2015) -
Under circumstances where there is no opportunity for rejecting, acquiescence cannot be presumed to arise from silence.
Academic text (1991) -
There was an unbroken glint of satisfaction hiding somehow behind her bland acquiescence, her servile tone.
Fiction book (2000)
Synonyms
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1.0
A situation in which people have the same opinion or give their approval
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2.9
Willingness to be friendly to people and ideas that are different
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5.1
Saying you accept a point or a demand so talks can continue
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4.2
Accepting an unpleasant situation without trying to change it
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6.8
A formal agreement that allows a plan or law to go ahead
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8.3
Giving up in a fight or war under agreed terms
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5.3
An act of ending an argument by accepting the other person's view
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8.4
Agreeing to a request or demand, often reluctantly
Admitting you have lost or accepting that others are right
Antonyms
How Accepting
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Acquiescence comes from the old Latin parts ad- meaning 'to' and quiescere meaning 'become quiet', and the same root is in the English word quiet. So acquiescence is like becoming 'quiet' about something — accepting it without protest.