tacit
Word family adverbtacitlyadjectivetacitnountacitness
ta·cit /ˈtæsɪt/ adjectiveadj AGREEtacit agreement, approval, support etc is given without anything actually being said 心照不宣的,默认的 SYN unspoken a tacit agreement between the three big companies 三家大公司之间的默契
—tacitly adverbadv
tacit agreement• It was better to say nothing and to convey, by the quality of her silence, a level of tacit agreement.• Your silence may be taken to mean tacit agreement.• When as Chancellor he was preparing to enter in 1985, he said, tacit agreement had been reached with the Bundesbank.• In tacit agreement, they separated before reaching the farm.• The response - from tacit agreement to outrage - was enormous ... Origin tacit (1600-1700) French tacite, from Latin tacitus, from tacere “to be silent”