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tacit

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
tacit /ˈtasɪt/

▶adjective understood or implied without being stated.

– derivatives
tacitly adverb.

– origin C17 (in the sense ‘wordless, noiseless’): from L. tacitus ‘silent’, from tacere ‘be silent’.

'tacit' also found in these Oxford entries:

renunciation - taciturn - unspoken

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