tacit

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It's now apparent that you either misunderstood the agreements that you had made - tacit or otherwise - with the Federal Reserve, the Treasury, various members of Congress and Attorney General Andrew Cuomo of New York, or were not strong enough to withstand the shifting political winds.

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  1. adjective Not spoken: indicated tacit approval by smiling and winking.
  2. adjective Implied by or inferred from actions or statements: Management has given its tacit approval to the plan.
  3. adjective Law Arising by operation of the law rather than through direct expression.
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  • The onlookers may be excused for their tacit countenance of the rudeness, since some element of drollery--that might have been wit, under better conditions--compels a smile, in spite of a dignified disapproval of the performance. —  Etiquette
  • Then three pairs of merry eyes focused commandingly upon her I didn't know it myself till last night," she said in response to the tacit order. —  The Outdoor Girls at Bluff Point Or a Wreck and a Rescue
  • He felt that he had judged the man narrowly and inadequately, and he decided that as soon as he heard from him, he would write and make due reparation for the tacit wrong he had done him Upon the whole he had some reason to be content with the first fortune of his work, whatever its final fate might be. —  The Story of a Play A Novel
  • He would have liked the whole business to be tacit--a little triumph of silent delicacy. —  The Tragic Muse
  • But he found reasons to suspect that what in fact would be most tacit was Julia's certain endurance of any chance failure of that charm. —  The Tragic Muse
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  1. Latin tacitus, silent, past participle of tacēre, to be silent.

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  1. = French tacite = Spanish tácito = Portuguese Italian tacito, from Latin tacitus, that is passed over in silence, done without words, assumed as a matter of course, silent, from tacere, be silent.
 

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