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What does acquiescence mean?

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  1. A silent or passive assent or submission, or a submission with apparent content; - distinguished from avowed consent on the one hand, and on the other, from opposition or open discontent; quiet satisfaction.
  2. (law) Submission to an injury by the party injured, or tacit concurrence in the action of another.
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In cases of this type, the customer's failure to object to the respective entry is considered acquiescence in the charge so made.
In colonial and antebellum America, slaves could buy their freedom, but only with the acquiescence of their masters.
After their initial statements, all of the parties kept a careful silence, with the complete acquiescence of a tame media.
Nothing less than complete acquiescence is acceptable within this church of political correctness.
Describe her as a basket case, and she nods her acquiescence.
Her mental maturity takes her from blind submission to condescending acquiescence.

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