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Tacit
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What it means
- adjective
Implied, but not made explicit, especially through silence.
“tacit consent ― consent by silence, or by not raising an objection”
- adjective
Not derived from formal principles of reasoning; based on induction rather than deduction.
Where it comes from
Tacit comes from Latin tacitus, silent, from tacere, to be silent. A tacit agreement is one nobody had to speak aloud.
In a sentence
- There must've been a tacit understanding between them.by CK, Tatoeba
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