I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
royal
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The new law will become effective three months from when it receives royal assent .
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Two days later the Education Act of 1944 received the royal assent .
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On 16 January 1707 the Treaty of Union received its royal assent .
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The Town Development Act received the royal assent in August 1952.
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The royal assent has not been refused since 1708.
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Three days after my sixteenth birthday, in August 1944, Butler's Education Act received the royal assent .
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The bill is expected to received royal assent in July, the regulations to come into force early 1994.
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Earlier this month the Badgers Bill completed its passage through both Houses of Parliament, and by now should have royal assent .
■ VERB
give
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The monarch gave formal assent to any legislative measure approved by the two houses.
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This is no new thought and many theorists, although moving from quite different assumptions, could readily give assent .
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The President retired for 20 minutes, and then gave his assent to the strike.
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In the corridor there were orders given and monosyllabic assents .
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Most of them are therefore likely to give their assent .
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Secondly, the other party must give his assent .
nod
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He nods his assent and then, realizing he's made a mistake, vigorously shakes his head in denial.
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The president readily nodded his assent .
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Rainbow feels caught out, blushes, nods a diffident assent , but says nothing.
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She nodded her assent and came down from the tree.
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Other parents nodded their assent , while I gave myself a quick quiz.
receive
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The new law will become effective three months from when it receives royal assent .
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Two days later the Education Act of 1944 received the royal assent .
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On 16 January 1707 the Treaty of Union received its royal assent .
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Once a bill has received the assent of both Houses it then goes to the monarch for the Royal Assent.
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The bill would take effect after receiving the assent of President Ghulam Ishaq Khan.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The court gave its assent .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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By convention, this assent is always forthcoming.
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He apparently took my blank-eyed look as an assent .
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On 16 January 1707 the Treaty of Union received its royal assent .
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Royal assent was given to the Bill in August.
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She nodded her assent and came down from the tree.
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The monarch gave formal assent to any legislative measure approved by the two houses.
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The raising of taxes or the dispensing of laws without the assent of Parliament was declared to be illegal.
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There was a knock on the door, and when he grunted muffled assent it opened and some one came in.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I can assent to this, but not that.
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In Britain, most people with an informed opinion would assent to it enthusiastically.
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Mr. Waldegrave I know that the hon. Gentleman agrees with me, because I can see him assenting.
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That celebrated sage, the man on the Clapham omnibus, would no doubt readily assent to it.
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The Commander assented to this as the only feasible solution, and the order was sent accordingly by medium-wave transmitter.
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The gods assented, well pleased with the two.
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There are a very few reservations such as assenting to an alteration of the succession to the throne.
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You come here and you assent .