Etymology
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Borrowed from French acquiescence.
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acquiescence (countable and uncountable, plural acquiescences)
- A silent or passive assent or submission, or a submission with apparent consent, distinguished from avowed consent on the one hand, and on the other, from opposition or open discontent; quiet satisfaction.
- (law) Inaction, passivity, or neglect to take legal action when it is called for in order to assert, preserve, or safeguard a right, and which inaction implies the abandonment of said right.
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silent or passive assent
- Catalan: aquiescència f, consentiment (ca) m
- Dutch: stilzwijgende instemming f
- French: acquiescement (fr) m, consentement (fr)
- German: Duldung (de) f, Einwilligung (de) f, Einverständnis (de) n, Fügung (de) f, Zustimmung (de) f, Inkaufnahme f, Ergebung f, Beistimmung f, Akquieszenz f, stillschweigende Billigung f, stillschweigende Zustimmung f, stillschweigende Einwilligung f
- Greek: συναίνεση (el) f (synaínesi), συγκατάθεση (el) f (sygkatáthesi)
- Hebrew: הַסְכָּמָה שֶׁבִּשְׁתִיקָה (he) f (haskamá šebištiqá)
- Hungarian: belenyugvás (hu), beletörődés (hu), beleegyezés (hu)
- Italian: acquiescenza (it) f
- Japanese: 黙認 (ja) (もくにん, mokunin)
- Ottoman Turkish: اذن (izn)
- Polish: potulność (pl) f, przyzwolenie (pl) n
- Portuguese: aquiescência (pt) f
- Russian: молчали́вое согла́сие n (molčalívoje soglásije)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: попуштање, прѝстанак m
- Roman: popuštanje, prìstanak (sh) m
- Spanish: aquiescencia (es) f, consentimiento (es) m
- Swedish: medgivande (sv), underkastelse (sv), eftergivenhet (sv)
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inaction to take legal recourse which implies the abandonment of a right
