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 tacit ['tæsɪt]   添加此单词到默认生词本
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    tacit
    [ adj ]
    implied by or inferred from actions or statements
    <adj.all>
    gave silent consenta tacit agreement
    the understood provisos of a custody agreement


    Tacit \Tac"it\, a. [L. tacitus, p. p. of tacere to be silent, to
    pass over in silence; akin to Goth. [thorn]ahan to be silent,
    Icel. [thorn]egja, OHG. dag[=e]n: cf. F. tacite. Cf.
    {Reticent}.]
    Done or made in silence; implied, but not expressed; silent;
    as, tacit consent is consent by silence, or by not
    interposing an objection. -- {Tac"it*ly}, adv.

    The tacit and secret theft of abusing our brother in
    civil contracts. --Jer. Taylor.

    1. The releases are viewed as tacit acknowledgement by the government of the ANC's influence and popularity.
    2. Nelson said any suggestion that violent acts have tacit approval from union leaders is "absolutely ridiculous." There have been no serious injuries in the 20 shootings.
    3. The destroyers and their tacit consenters do little more than discourage new recruits for mainstream environmental groups.
    4. Competition has long been tacit American policy.
    5. As it was, the Mafia became an arm of anti-communism in return for a fairly well-defined but tacit agreement on the tolerance of their illicit activities.
    6. That is a tacit admission Democrats do not believe they could override a threatened veto.
    7. On the attack, Metzenbaum contends Voinovich waffled over the plant closing law, once vetoed by Reagan, and that the mayor has given tacit approval to right-wing groups that have tried to paint the incumbent as a communist sympathizer.
    8. The government previously has released prisoners, including those jailed during the 1968 student movement, in what amounted to a tacit acknowledgement that it had political prisoners.
    9. Reform movements with tacit Soviet approval have ousted regimes in Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and East Germany.
    10. The Saudi Arabia meeting was tacit acknowledgment from Moscow that it is exploring a non-communist alternative to President Najib, head of the embattled Kabul government.
    11. That sentiment has now emerged in the Fed's new debt-for-equity conversions rule for good reason, and in this form it even enjoys the tacit support of Congress.
    12. In tacit admission of how tough that will be, NBC already has begun giving advertisers free spots during the Games.
    13. Moreover, the South says the North has given tacit recognition by agreeing to hold the historic talks, the highest-level contact ever held between the nations.
    14. From congressional inquiries and the accounts of Mr. Bull's colleagues, it appears that the scientist was trying to finance his research through arms deals that he thought had the tacit approval of the U.S.
    15. He is vaguely unsettled by the signs of oppression all around him and by the tacit agreement with the government's policy by his family and fellow faculty members.
    16. He exercised a mesmeric influence on people, a brutal emotional tyranny that, as Mr. Richardson notes, "was the more effective for being tacit."
    17. They took 156 of the 379 seats in Parliament and govern with the tacit support of the Communist Party, which holds 21 seats.
    18. His administration had survived through the tacit support of the Fine Gael and the Progressive Democrats, a faction that broke from Fianna Fail.
    19. That would give the front and its tacit allies a total of 283 seats _ enough to carry a vote if there are no defections.
    20. He said the admiral's answers indicated he had given "tacit" approval to the secret transfer of funds, but Mr. Meese acknowledged that he never pressed the national security adviser to explain what authority he had to so permit the scheme.
    21. In a further revision of the general interpretation of the events as they were unfolding in 1991, the court also ruled that former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev was not a victim of the coup but, at the very least, a tacit supporter.
    22. Gorbachev even gave tacit approval in November as the incarnation of the Cold War, the Berlin Wall, crumbled amid joyous celebrations by East and West Germans.
    23. Jan. 8 The Duluth (Minn.) News-Tribune on federal pay raises: Silence from this carping corner as Congress moved inexorably toward a 50 percent pay hike for itself may have seemed tacit acceptance of its wisdom _ or inevitability.
    24. A tacit mutual approval existed.
    25. Then one ex-player sued the school and the NCAA to get back the eligibility they removed after he entered (without success) the last NFL draft, and another said that Irish linemen used steroids with the tacit approval of Coach Lou Holtz.
    26. But it admits that a tacit agreement once existed to permit each side to continue lending to old customers.
    27. While the Welsh Office has still to spell out its commitment, it has given tacit backing to an architectural competition, the result of which should be announced in 12 months' time. Not everything has gone smoothly over the past seven years.
    28. He also has won at least tacit backing from pro-Nationalist newspapers, which view him as more pragmatic and open-minded than Botha.
    29. It was more a personal desire for power than a power based on ideology. The south also has a wide degree of support from south Yemenis overseas, as well as a degree of tacit sympathy from some of its neighbours.
    30. Still, analysts say the government has given its tacit consent.
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