assentformal

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to say yes to a suggestion or idea
agreeI suggested they seek legal counsel and they agreed.
acceptI have no choice but to accept the ruling of the court.
acquiesceThe police acquiesced to the rebels' demands.
assentBy signing, you assent to the terms of the contract.
consentI consent to a search of my vehicle.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Accepting & agreeing reluctantly
accede to something
acceptance
acquiescence
be resigned to somethingidiom
bend to something
bow down to someone
cave in
concede
crack
peace
philosophical
resign yourself to something
resignation
resigned
resignedly
resort to something
settle for something
shoulder
tolerate
trade something off

acquiesce | American Dictionary

acquiesce
verb[ I ]
us/ˌæk·wiˈes/
to accept or agree to something, often without really wanting to:
The bank acquiesced to an extension of the loan.

acquiescence

noun[ U ]us/ˌæk·wiˈes·əns/
His acquiescence in these policies has made it possible for him to increase his support among some voters.

Examples of acquiesce

acquiesce
However, it is better to acquiesce and live under submission than to endure the cost of challenging alone.
It becomes easier to acquiesce than to risk appearing unprofessional with your publisher or readers, especially in a business when the deadline was yesterday.
Where authority is legitimate, it is both a simple duty and a natural inclination to acquiesce in it.
Before 'premature transnationalism' developed fully into its mature phase as liberal internationalism, transanationalism had again mutated so as to acquiesce to the imperial order.
Or at least that will be so if our reason for acquiescing in the regulatory regime is precisely that the regulations have this effect.
Instead, it acquiesced in judicial reformist activity until legislation on the subject began in the 1920s.
On the other hand, if students acquiesce to the charade, they are cooperating with dishonesty and undermining one of medicine's pivotal values.
Or at least that will be so if we acquiesce in this sort of representation, because of how it serves our preferences.
These employers found it more rational to battle the machinists' union than to acquiesce to it.
Though they fought long and hard against segregated churches and parishes, they eventually acquiesced in order to have access to better schooling.
The opponents of the new system had the option of refusing to acquiesce en masse.
To acquiesce to such erosion of professional raison d'etre would seem to be evidence more of inertia than rationality.
None of these changes was necessarily congenial to the commander-in-chief, for all that he acquiesced in, and even implemented, them.
Recall that in weak consensus there is a target group that acquiesces (despite lack of concurrence) to the consensus of an elite subgroup.
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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