consent
IPA: kʌnsˈɛnt
noun
- Voluntary agreement or permission.
- (obsolete) Unity or agreement of opinion, sentiment, or inclination.
- (obsolete) Advice; counsel.
verb
- (intransitive) To express willingness, to give permission.
- (transitive, medicine) To cause to sign a consent form.
- (transitive, obsolete) To grant; to allow; to assent to.
- To agree in opinion or sentiment; to be of the same mind; to accord; to concur.
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Examples of "consent" in Sentences
- The girl consented to marry the prince.
- The consent of the teen is not required.
- The meeting at the meeting consented the proposal.
- At the time, the homosexual age of consent was 21.
- A consent decree can be either interlocutory or final.
- Could the smoker in the picture have consented to that
- Voluntary euthanasia is that with the consent of the subject.
- But the informed consent of patients must underwrite that objective.
- In contrast 16 is the age of consent for lesbians and heterosexuals.
- The expansion of government is limited by the consent of the governed.