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It is typically used to describe something that is understood or implied without being stated directly. Example: "There was a tacit agreement between the two parties to keep the negotiations confidential." Alternatives include "implicit" or "unspoken."
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Tacit
adjective
Expressed in silence; implied, but not made explicit; silent.
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Her government's tacit support for Saddam Hussein's war against Iran led to successive Gulf wars and John Major's studied neutrality in Bosnia – which later pushed Tony Blair in the opposite direction, towards costly interventionism that overstretched MoD resources.
This is estate-agent speak for "visible signs of poverty nearby" – and it is accompanied by the tacit assumption that in a few years' time the area will be completely gentrified.
"Yet, in contrast to the tacit official encouragement of more liberal voices after 9/11, any debate within Saudi Arabia over the role of its official creed in fostering the group's extremism has been timid and largely confined to social media... "The Saudi authorities have been quick to condemn Isis.
It was a painful process, a tacit acknowledgment on Jane's part that she would not be able to take photographs indefinitely – she was in her late 70s at the time – and a growing awareness that this had been an immense support to her in a way she had always taken for granted.
This casual carelessness, this tacit acceptance of outrageous terms and conditions, is, as far as we can tell, universal across internet users everywhere.
Many of the tax breaks involve projects connected to Norcross, the Democratic power broker, whose tacit support for Christie is widely viewed as vital to his 2009 victory over the then governor Jon Corzine.
Push come to shove, I've been fair to him, ain't I? Is that not tacit approval for any action against Dee, if necessary?
Having persuaded Murdoch that his version of Labour, which ditched the term socialist in favour of New, along with clause IV, was no threat to Murdoch's global ambitions, Blair secured the tacit and even overt support of the Tory press.
Shortly after that, the world reached a tacit agreement to never mention Celebrity Wrestling ever again.
There was also a lengthy discussion about whether Pakistan, which publicly decries the drone campaign despite signs that it continues to give tacit approval, should attempt to shoot down US drones in its airspace.
This was apparently a rebuttal to Alireza Zakani, a fundamentalist member of parliament from Tehran, who had warned the assembly of "a possibly tacit crossing of the red line that will undoubtedly lead to a defeat for Iran's national rights and a serious setback for our many nuclear achievements thus far".
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