ACQUIESCE


Meaning of ACQUIESCE in English

verb

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Before 1979 the Conservative party had effectively acquiesced in most of the public ownership measures of earlier Labour governments.

Instead, I acquiesced in her authority and I quietly did as I was told.

Sound-particularly music-comes to stand for a regional refusal to acquiesce to imperial or metropolitan power.

The Court, in a unanimous opinion by Chief Justice Chase, acquiesced.

The Maccabees fought rather than acquiesce in the placing of a statue of Zeus in the Temple.

The other ashram women followed her in acquiescing.

We imagine that the white race, at least, would not acquiesce in this assumption.

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