acquiesce
IPA: ækwiˈɛs
verb
- (intransitive, with in (or sometimes with, to)) To rest satisfied, or apparently satisfied, or to rest without opposition and discontent (usually implying previous opposition or discontent); to accept or consent by silence or by omitting to object.
- (intransitive) To concur upon conviction; to assent to; usually, to concur, not heartily but so far as to forbear opposition.
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Examples of "acquiesce" in Sentences
- I acquiesce to all of the above.
- Overpayment was not acquiescence.
- He remained acquiescent for the moment.
- I will not be bullied into acquiescence.
- Both decided to acquiesce to the request.
- He certainly is not an acquiescent person.
- This is not a Harry Potter acquiescence site.
- In this instance the consensus is to acquiesce.
- Off the top of my head, "acquiesce" is pretty cool.
- American acquiescence to these attacks on humanity is abhorrent.
- His silence was thus interpreted by the Israelis as acquiescence.
- She not only used "acquiesce" in a song way before Noel Gallagher made such a fanfare of doing so, but deployed it perfectly:
- But if we again acquiesce we will be reduced to sad and pathetic footnotes in our accelerating transformation from a democracy to a totalitarian corporate state.
- (b) is it necessary that the proprietor of a trade mark should have his trade mark registered before he can begin to "acquiesce" in the use by another of (i) an identical or
- Instead of me going through life hoping that God is following me around in whatever mess I find myself in this time, it’s actually him that’s leading the way through it all if I acquiesce, that is.
- But … there are reasons why parties have developed and that is because they operate as vehicles by which like minded people can coalesce around similar ideological and/or philosophical stances and generate programmes which they can then bring to the electorate and gain acceptance (or is the term 'acquiesce'?).
- [If this question has to be answered, the IPKat predicts a Delphic response along the lines of "it's up to the referring court to apply its own law to the facts".] (c) in any case, is it necessary that the proprietor of a trade mark should have his trade mark registered before he can begin to "acquiesce" in the use by another of (i) an identical or (ii) a confusingly similar mark?