What does acquiesced mean as it is used?

The definition of acquiesce means to give in or go along with something without protesting, even if you don't really want to.

An example of acquiesce is agreeing to go on vacation to the mountains when you really wanted to go to the sea.

(intransitive) To rest satisfied, or apparently satisfied, or to rest without opposition and discontent (usually implying previous opposition or discontent); to accept or consent by silence or by omitting to object; — followed by "in", sometimes also by "with" and "to".

(intransitive) To concur upon conviction; as, to acquiesce in an opinion; to assent to; usually, to concur, not heartily but so far as to forbear opposition.

Origin of Acquiesce

• From Middle French acquiescer, from Latin acquiescere; ad + quiescere ("to be quiet"), from quies ("rest").

  His acquiescence in these policies has made it possible for him to increase his support among some voters.
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  Examples of acquiesce

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  However, it is better to acquiesce and live under submission than to endure the cost of challenging alone.

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  It becomes easier to acquiesce than to risk appearing unprofessional with your publisher or readers, especially in a business when the deadline was yesterday.

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  Where authority is legitimate, it is both a simple duty and a natural inclination to acquiesce in it.

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  Before 'premature transnationalism' developed fully into its mature phase as liberal internationalism, transanationalism had again mutated so as to acquiesce to the imperial order.

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  Or at least that will be so if our reason for acquiescing in the regulatory regime is precisely that the regulations have this effect.

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  Instead, it acquiesced in judicial reformist activity until legislation on the subject began in the 1920s.

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  On the other hand, if students acquiesce to the charade, they are cooperating with dishonesty and undermining one of medicine's pivotal values.

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  Or at least that will be so if we acquiesce in this sort of representation, because of how it serves our preferences.

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  These employers found it more rational to battle the machinists' union than to acquiesce to it.

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  Though they fought long and hard against segregated churches and parishes, they eventually acquiesced in order to have access to better schooling.

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  The opponents of the new system had the option of refusing to acquiesce en masse.

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  To acquiesce to such erosion of professional raison d'etre would seem to be evidence more of inertia than rationality.

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  None of these changes was necessarily congenial to the commander-in-chief, for all that he acquiesced in, and even implemented, them.

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  Recall that in weak consensus there is a target group that acquiesces (despite lack of concurrence) to the consensus of an elite subgroup.

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  Planters eventually acquiesced because they maintained control over crucial productive decisions : cotton is what they wanted, and cotton is what the sharecroppers grew.

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  Instead, it acquiesced in judicial reformist activity until legislation on the subject began in the 1920s.

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  Though they fought long and hard against segregated churches and parishes, they eventually acquiesced in order to have access to better schooling.

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  None of these changes was necessarily congenial to the commander-in-chief, for all that he acquiesced in, and even implemented, them.

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  Planters eventually acquiesced because they maintained control over crucial productive decisions : cotton is what they wanted, and cotton is what the sharecroppers grew.

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  There were, however, a few others concerned about the new system who, because of their particular circumstances, acquiesced prior to ratification.

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  In an effort to prevent controversy, the administration quietly acquiesced in the new political reality.

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  The political leaders who forged or acquiesced in that alliance are either not aware of its importance or not willing to admit it.

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  However, they acquiesced with 'family' decisions to maintain non-working young adult women ascribing such decisions to the men in the family.

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  Even the defense acquiesced to this fact.

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  A predominance of cooperative or neutral responses to dependent positioning by the staff would suggest that the residents have acquiesced to being in a dependent role.

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  The skippers pleaded guilty and acquiesced in the fines imposed.

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  He has apparently acquiesced in it and there is no guarantee that he will get any better results.

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  Then how on earth can he ever have acquiesced in it or otherwise?

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  Is it to be said that he acquiesced in them because he could not get his tenant to appeal against them?

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  Once again the worker shareholders, and sometimes their widows who still held the shares, acquiesced.

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  What is the correct meaning of acquiesce?

  acquit verb [T] (DECIDE NOT GUILTY) to decide officially in a court of law that someone is not guilty of a particular crime: She was acquitted.

  What does acquiescence mean example?

  : passive acceptance or submission : the act of acquiescing or the state of being acquiescent. I was surprised by his acquiescence to their demands. : an instance of acquiescing.

  Does acquiesce mean to agree?

  Meaning of acquiescing in English to accept or agree to something, often unwillingly: Reluctantly, he acquiesced to/in the plans.

  How do you use acquiescence in words?

  If you acquiesce in something, you agree to do what someone wants or to accept what they do. Steve seemed to acquiesce in the decision. When her mother suggested that she stay, Alice willingly acquiesced.