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The following is a decisive, though what we call a tacit reference to
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- adjective Not spoken: indicated tacit approval by smiling and winking.
- adjective Implied by or inferred from actions or statements: Management has given its tacit approval to the plan.
- adjective Law Arising by operation of the law rather than through direct expression.
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How can you be the secretary of Homeland Security and leave 300 million Americans vulnerable to terrorist attack and actually help perpetuate a losing war on drugs in this country, as well as just by tacit -- by inaction condone illegal entry of a million people into this country a year?
— CNN Transcript Nov 26, 2006 - The special courts of the lex Licinia Mucia were out of action, and the Senate in tacit agreement had decided that the massive enrollment of the Antonius-Flaccus census in Italy should simply be ignored until the next census came along. — The Grass Crown
- We spent the remainder of the evening in tacit agreement not to discuss either his wife or my investigation. — The Shape of Dread
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How can you be the secretary of Homeland Security and leave 300 million Americans vulnerable to terrorist attack and actually help perpetuate a losing war on drugs in this country, as well as, just by tacit -- by inaction, condone illegal entry of a million people into this country a year?
— CNN Transcript Nov 21, 2006 -
The following is a decisive, though what we call a tacit reference to
— Evidence of Christianity
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- Latin tacitus, silent, past participle of tacēre, to be silent.
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/ (tăsˈĭt)/
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